Last night, the Funny Bone was pretty packed, presumably with people packing free passes that expired this morning. I wasn't on stage, but the show was still pretty good. There were a couple guys from Kansas City, and they were pretty funny, though very angry on stage. I was in and out of the showroom all night, because I wanted to talk shop with some comics and they were at the bar. Also, The comics are being coralled into an area in the far left of the room. We're literally fenced in. I don't mind, but the area is pretty small, and a bunch (and I mean at least 4) of comics were talking and wouldn't shut the crap up. Some people were whispering, which is cool, especially when they only say 1 or 2 things at a time, but other guys were holding very audible conversations, and call me crazy but I was in the show room to watch (and listen to) comedy. But I guess they had other plans... who knows. Anyway, it's open mic at LL tonight, they're having improv troupe auditions, which would be kind of neat to look into, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go. I've done some improv before, but it was just a bunch of college students and it was very self-directed, so we didn't really know what was going on or supposed to be going on. Then again, I enjoy the "science"1 aspect of comedy, and would like to learn more about other "schools" of comedy. Then again, I would really like to approach comedy more as an "art"2, where less-thought and more-passion and -reaction goes into it and comes out of me.
Not being on stage last night, I went home and "busted out" this. Therefore I was too tired to write in this until now.
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these definitions aren't official, I haven't read them anywhere, they're just what I see when I think about comedy.
1. science of comedy: the rules of comedy. To me this includes stuff like the setup, punchline, tag protocol and things like the rule-of-three and a heavy emphasis on word choice.
2. art of comedy: an approach of comedy where the rules aren't as strictly followed, and word choice isn't as important as the accent and way the words are delivered and presentation over all.