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How to Become The King of Comedy
They say, laughter is the best medicine. It cures you from stress and trauma. Moreover, it facilitates the flow of oxygen into your lungs, thus ensuring your good health. However, we must not dwell and harp on the medical benefits and enjoy laughter fully and heartily. Laughter unites rivals, brings fiends closer, and seals the strength of numerous relationships. It also helps you to forget a painful memory and bury an unpleasant past; which means, that the charity of good spirits begins at home. You should be a capable comic, with the uncanny skill to make the spectators roll down the aisles and cough up hilarity. OK, grumpy elders may say that, it is all very embarrassing and all, but that should not stop you from entertaining your guests and relatives at parties and functions. Nothing works than pure jest and ridicule, and here is how you should work on being The King of Comedy.
Getting Ready, Onstage.....
So, the lights are on you and you should be geared up to make heads turn to you. It seems, as if you have invited about half of the neighborhood and your relatives and you want to really cheer everyone up. So, you should concentrate solely on how you should perform. The crucial thing is your body language. You should express confidence in your gags and tricks. Even while speaking, you should adequately shift your expressions and gestures, according to your plan of entertainment. Most stand-up comedians score high on their expressions and movements. Sometimes, you can deliberately stumble and fool around on the stage. Famous people like Charles Chaplin and Laurel-Hardy have won fans owing to their extremely natural performance of the gags and misadventures. Sometimes, your natural behavior will draw up chuckles from the crowd. The crowd wants to have a grand time, once they are in the mood and you should not let them down, in respect of your performance.
Loony Looks!
Now, while you work on your performance, you are left with dressing up yourself elaborately. Mind you, the crowds won't expect you to saunter or stumble in, while dressed in a Harris Tweed. The more louder and gaudy are your costumes, the more are the chances that, the audiences will erupt with volcanic laughter. You can dress yourself in the riotous garbs of clowns and fools, or in the gimmicky attire of comic book heroes. As long as you blend your clever jokes with pompous gags and acts, your ploy will work. Even if your body language suffers, you can amply make up by your costumes. You can add to that your facial expressions and your farce will work to hilarious results.
Famous comedians and onstage jesters have thrilled people by their crazy and whimsical ensemble of gaily colored costumes and their comic stunts and somersaults. Charlie Chaplin's signature style of walking on twisted feet is one such example. More mundane, but equally effective, ways of comedy are dressing up in clothes that are reserved for the other sex. This might be offensive but are sure-fire successes. Sometimes, the ace comedians will come on the stage in decent attire, but will joke about their clothes and this can draw many laughs as well.
Scripting Your Jokes
The important feature of first-timer comedians is to script their jokes well. Sometimes, you are left to their own devices, which mean that you do not have the flair for body language or gags. Herein, you should script your jokes, perfectly. Remember that, satirical or genteel humor will be as hilarious as slapstick or sexual innuendos. But, the former will work more universally; the latter might offend some, especially women. So script your jokes smartly and carefully. Choose jokes, with cleverly hidden entendres and meanings, to let the audience guess and conclude, what you want to convey. Avoid jokes on disabilities, incongruities and diseases. Do not use discriminatory language or even slurs and cuss words. These will only make your efforts futile.
Some other things should be taken into consideration, while performing onstage. If your script is falling short of laughs, you can layer it gently, with sarcasm and political humor. You can also plan mimicry. You can mimic popular actors, celebrities, politicos etc. And finally, you can always make the show funny and lively by picking up any spectator and egging them into performing some of the gags themselves.