What it takes to a best amongst stand up comedians?

Stand up comedians, the ones who entertain live audience by directly addressing them, are the one who brings smile on the unhappy faces. It’s one of the most technical and difficult sort of skill to make people laugh while hiding your own worries and sadness behind your acts. Actors and actresses performing any genre find it interesting and challenging as well.  Even though, they are experienced and well trained in the general acting but they still needs a lot to learn when they opt to become a best stand up comedian. For this purpose they seek training from their seniors. Following are some of the traits to become a sensible comedian;

Best stand up comedians

Stand up comedians Facing the live audience

Stand up comedians are the only performers that directly communicate with the audience. If you are an actor, you may be familiar with a small set, a camera and a few people shouting the act. Traditional acting will not expose you to the public but the stand up comedians have to face the live audience. You need to expert of facing and performing in front of audience. Being the basic skill, you will be required to perform to live audience before being approved to be a best stand up comedian. For this purpose the directors may hold auditions and take your trials. Facing the live audience needs confidence and dare to speak out in front of those you never faced. It has its other benefits too, as the audience includes some noble personalities who may like your confidence and consider you for a more versatile act. For sure, a stage exposes you to public at large giving you immense popularity to start your career and become a famous comedian.
Representing yourself

Mostly acting is about representing some fictitious characters which may be very similar and touches the senses of audience whereas the stand up comedians do not represent fake characters. What they do is representing their own selves. If you have got the guts of representing yourself openly on the stage then surely you can be the best amongst stand up comedians. Most of the actors tend to conceal their identity and do not disclose facts about their real life whereas, here at the stage, comedians share the funny incidents from their everyday life to make us laugh. They share everything they have in their mind even they narrate their sad storied in a humorous way that the audience enjoys the most but never feel the sadness behind their anecdotes. It’s one of the difficult task to put the mask of being honourable and represent only and only yourself. As in traditional acting the actors always have to put themselves in other characters and mould their behaviour as the directors wants for a specific character that’s why when this community turns to perform stand up comedy they could not act in the way they are. In fact they forgot their own self.

Stand Up Comedians learn the art of story telling

Again a most creative skill is required to become best amongst a stand up comedians is to know how to narrate and what to narrate. The art of storytelling does not only include the narration of a funny story but it also includes the art of enhancing the humour of an ordinary situation and transforming a dull and boring situation through humorous comments and dialogues. The best stand up comedians create a healthy and fun loving situation by just playing with words and utilizing the situations as much as possible. They often abruptly share their own experience by relating it to relevant situation. Surely one needs to be master of using the exact words at the right time. Storytelling demands courage and speaking power to be fluent and enough to communicate the audience.