HOW TO BE FUNNY AND ADD HUMOUR

Edinburgh Festival. The fringe. Before Covid19 every year you would hear the jokes from the Edinburth Festival, held in Scotland, UK. Other festivals of comedy were held in Australia and Asia and the USA. Maybe we can all attend these in 2021. Meanwhile, time to start exploring our favourite jokes. When I went on a standup comedy course organized by Amused Moose in London, I heard about shows at the Edinburgh Festival. The cost of hiring a room in a pub can be expensive and you need lots of flyers and publicity to get your money back. Many shows are supposedly free but they pass a hat for contributions. The cost of hiring the room is not usually down to one individual, unless they are world famous, but shared by up to 20 or more participants in the sketches. The cost could be borne by a sponsor, such as a school or college or students union. What about street theatre? We saw one great act. As we approached the crowd the one man performing rushed up to me and shouted, ...

How can you be funny about your family? Easy-peasy. I went on an Amused Moose stand up Comedy course. We were asked to talk about ourselves, as introduction to the group. I said, "My husband and I have separate bedrooms. Mine is in London, his is in Singapore." I had not intended that to be funny. But everybody found it funny. You can see many stand up comedians talking about their nearest and dearest. Spouses. Children. Grandchildren. List All the Members Of Your Family - And Pets Mother Father Children Grandchildren Uncles and aunts Cousins Pets - dogs, cats, birds, fish, others Successes My impoverished, plain, lame aunt, the Cinderella of her sisters, had to work as a piano teacher. She married a wealthy widow whose son she taught. Failures Divorced Died young Married the wrong person Lost all their money Kept coming to you with sob stories Contrast - eg only children and big families You are an only child. Contrast with someone who has many ...