Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.
When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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