Stand Up Lesson #94: Commit To Your Material

My stand up coach/friend/comedy therapist, Judith Shelton told me that my punch lines needed to be stronger.  Basically, they lack “Oomph!” and “Pow!”   Not the material, necessarily, but the delivery.   Then, last  night “Comedienne Dana Snow!” (spoken in an announcer voice) said that my voice trailed at the punchline

I’m bailing on my jokes.  Even when the writing has some “Pow!”, my energy is like the last whimper before a tired kid goes to sleep, a death throw.

To be fair, it’s a self-protective defense mechanism.  This shit is hard.  And the thing about punchlines…is that they have the potential to torpedo down in an explosion of dissappointment and defeat, leaving audiences wondering why the hell they bothered to waste three-ten minutes of their lives on your boring drivel.  (Note: It’s my opinon that even a failed comic is better than 90% of speech makers who are attention-whores without even attempting to pay full returns.).  Nonetheless, when a joke tanks, everyone feels like they lost a piece of their soul.  Who wants that?  Not me. So instead of crashing at 100 mph, I just pull over to the side of the road and go to sleep.

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But I gotta fail bigger.  Courage.

Just for today, I can commit to my material.