Writing Comedy Material

Comedy material? What? Writing comedy material? What do I know about doing that? Not much actually, but I’m trying …

I’ve been idly thinking about this, off and on, for a while, and I’ve finally bit the bullet, and got working on making it happen!

So yeah, that was a week ago I wrote that, and now, I’ve performed the piece I wrote, and people laughed at the right bits, then I studied more about how to be a Stand Up Comic, ie Googled it and read a bit about it, and realised, given the fact people already laugh at what I say (and mostly when I’m being funny on purpose), well I don’t need to study it, do I?

I just need to get gigs, and do them, right? Sounds right to me. And from that studying I did, I discovered great news – it’s perfectly fine to just ad lib, go with the flow, and just be naturally funny, with no need to write a script, then spend hours,and hours memorising it! So wow, yay to that idea!

Because I’m disabled, you see, I have an incurable illness, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and I have mild cognitive issues, and my memory is affected. Boo hoo, poor me! Haha, I’m too lazy to actually be bothered trying to do it, that’s the real truth. I do have MS though, that’s true too, and that may well be the reason why I disappear off to something totally different to, or only slightly related to where I was at the start, and now what on earth was I meaning to say anyway?

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I wrote that text above around a month ago, but now I’ve done my Stand Up in a much bigger space, and I realise the truth of what I’ll have to do, to do well with Nanna Carreau – I will do best with a smaller audience, made up of people who are there expecting to see someone doing a Stand Up commedian act.

With the bigger possible audience, it wasn’t until I was able to isolate a small group and make sure they were interested in seeing me do a part of my act, before I was able to gain any kind of interest in who I was, and why I was dressed in such an odd style. The more I look into such things, the better my choices of when and where will become.

I don’t have another act booked until the end of July, and that’s fine. I know the July gig will go well, because it’s somewhere I’m known, and people there will know what to expect. I’ve also have valuable feedback from someone who has been with ‘Nanna Carreau’ almost from the beginning. She told me I’d be better off to cut back my presentation, make it short and sweet, and be more connected with my audience.

Having material is written down in useful, but being prepared to ‘go with the flow’ that’s important as well. The written down material though won’t be wasted, because I’m interested in taking Nanna Carreau to the written page as well, with a memoir style book ‘written’ by Nanna Carreau.

I’ve begun putting down some words for this project, and I think it will work. But the launch for that will be a thing for next year perhaps, we’ll see … At the moment, keeping moving, and holding off the signs of old age are more important! Winter may be on the way, but I’m still getting out there and walking to keep moving!

No comedy there, just good health!