On Wednesday I did stand-up at Comedy TN and all-in-all it was a good first attempt at it.
The funny thing was I only prepared about an hour before hand and I had tons of stuff I was going to improv in between my prepared stuff. As I was on stage I found it difficult to remember the prepared stuff and focused so much on remembering it that I totally spaced on all the improv stuff.
You would think that 5 minutes on stage is not a whole lot of time, but it truly is. My entire routine lasted only about 2 minutes. There were long pauses in there too.
I felt very comfortable on stage though. I wasn’t nervous at all. The biggest challenge is not being able to see the audience as the lights are so freaking bright. So instead of being able to visualize the audience response to your routine, you need to be able to hear audibles like there laughter. Believe it or not I felt that was the challenge, because I was focused on trying to bring out my routine in my thoughts while listening for laughter cues. In essence this can actually broaden your PUA skills, by becoming cognizant of audible cues. Sometime you wont get visual IOI’s in a set, but if you can recognize voice patterns you could master PUA.
In every aspect of life PUA skills become more evident as self-improvement skills which transcend all layers of social dynamics.
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