Being A Comedian : 5 helpful tips for any Comedian

• BBR Productions Inc : Being A Comedian : 5 helpful tips for any Comedian

There are many tips a Comedian could utilize. Which top five tips would be most helpful for being a Comedian. First, are we talking about being A Comedian, or having a Career as a Comedian? These are five tips for ANY Comedian. Common “helpful tips” are; Get on stage as much as possible, write everyday, and do open mics! What if there were other tips for Comedians?

1) Network, Market, Practice : This is a people's game. Success is about other people. Venue owners liking you, bookers, other comedians. This is a people's game. Build and cultivate relationships while taking a brand to build awareness to create interested, which generates sales. All the while Practice!

2) Foundation : Figure out what your monthly budget is. Save eighteen months of that monthly budget. Once this amount is in a bank account, stop working a day job and concentrate on working your career job. This foundation will always a person to work hard at their craft for 365 days.

3) Now is better than later : Reach out to people now. Build these relationships before you are funny. Get a website before you become a successful comedian. Have business cards on you at all times. These acts are about friendships, not about telling people you are a comedian. Make friends.

4) Face time : Be seen in the scene. Get out there and hangout with other comedians. More importantly, hangout at clubs for owners to see you. Most importantly, do your research and figure out what events are going on and get out there to be at them. Mingle, and do this to make FRIENDS!

5) Have fun : If you are not having fun. Stop. Breathe, and figure out what you want to do with your life. If you are not happy, then you'll never be happy. You have to be happy doing the grind. It's the hard work, business of comedy, and the ability to be rejected which is the life of Being A Comedian.

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Being A Comedian : Writing jokes

• BBR Productions Inc : Being A Comedian : Writing jokes

Things that should be in a writing kit; A recording device, pen and paper, computer (optional), an environment which is conducive to creativity, and friends (fellow comedians or regular friends). All these items make it fairly easier to get the creative flow out and into form. There is an order to every aspect of writing. However, with multiple ways to express the inner workings of a comedic mind, this is just one of many helpful ways to get an idea from brain to paper to stage.

Grab that pen and paper and start brainstorming. Write out a list of ideas in a column. Once it becomes difficult to think of more thoughts, stop. Now, go through each thought written and brainstorm on that particular thought. After brainstorming is complete, begin recording yourself riffing on the subject, words, and thoughts written all over the paper. This will give anyone a starting point. You can move around the list without going in order. Just have fun.

Now that you have recorded yourself speaking out. Begin writing down what you had said, verbatim. This will show you how your pauses, and natural speaking patterns come off. To help develop your voice. At this point, invite some friends, or fellow comedians, and work the bit out. As a group, if more than one person is telling jokes in this meeting, be comfortable with having everyone through in some creative criticism. Once you feel comfortable with the joke, try it out at a real show!

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Being A Comedian : Being funny

• BBR Productions Inc : Being A Comedian : Being funny

There is writing jokes then there is being funny. At times, a comedian can be very funny but their writing skills and or time to write is limited. This is when hiring a writer to assist is useful. These writers might not be funny performers but our skillful wordsmiths. There is a path for everyone in entertainment. What our your strengths? Are you a writer, or a performer? Are you a comedian who wants to tell jokes on stage or be funny?

The biggest difference between telling jokes and “being Funny” comes down to the style. Telling jokes is a reciting process on stage. Memorizing a set up, throwing out a punchline, then possibly hitting them with a good strong tag. Depending on the joke, a call back can be thrown in there. This is a simple way of getting on stage to make an audience laugh. Anyone can tell jokes. Jokes make us laugh. That is why at parties you can tell a joke and get a chuckle to a big laugh.

What is being funny!? This is when a comedian can be on stage, tell a joke, story, idea, interact with the crowd, etc and make people laugh because they are I general, a funny person. There is mastery involved in becoming funny. Like an actor with a bad script, they still must make it work. A joke could be very bad, but a comedian being funny can turn it around. Both telling a joke and being funny are skills. Both need practice to master. Which one you want to be, comes down to your direction.

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Being A Comedian : Two paths

• BBR Productions Inc : Being A Comedian : Two paths

There are two kinds of Comedians; The Hobbyist (Artist) & The Professional (Career Driven). Both have hard roads ahead of them. Both are equally passionate about what they are doing. Both also live to tell jokes and perform to get their creative juices out in front of audiences. Where they are both different is the path they decided to take. One took the path driven on by many others before them. The other comedian studied the art of the business before deciding on their craft.

Sit with a Hobbyist and their advice to becoming a successful Comedian is; Get to as many Open mics as much as possible, to work your craft. Next, write everyday and all day. Thirdly, but not last, get stage time to master your craft. This is true, these things will make you a successful Comedian performer, but it won't make anyone success at a long lasting career. Or to clarify, it will take ten to twenty years to “get your big break” doing it this way.

Then there is the path of few. This path concentrates on the power of Networking, Marketing, and Practicing. Where a Hobbyist mainly focuses on Practicing, until they are good enough in their mind, before they start marketing themselves. This business is about who you know (Networking), who knows you (Marketing), and time for you (Practicing). Even when you are not ready, making relationships as friends is more powerful than letting people know what it is you DO.

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Being A Comedian : What Comedians do

• BBR Productions Inc : Being A Comedian : What Comedians do

Comedians have a lot of responsibilities to grow and maintain a career in entertainment. What is their job vs what they do; is where every performer should sit down and figure out. A comedian's job is getting their business up and running. Then, maintaining that business. Learning how to manager their time, money and people surrounding opportunities. What comedians do, well, they tell jokes. They write, they perform. These things a comedian does, but it is not their job.

A comedian's job tasks and responsibilities is required for longevity. A Comedian writing and tell jokes everyday all day will only get so far, then maintain that career for so long. It is a business after all. The idea is to look at this career as a business. As if the comedian opened up a Donut shop. No matter how good those Donuts are, if they do not know how to run a business correctly, it will fail and close. As a business owner of a life career, it is the responsibility of the comedian to know their job.

Because what they do, is write jokes and perform. This is the gift, the payment for being an amazingly hard working business person. These are the donuts a comedian can eat all day every day for keeping their doors open because there is a successfully ran business. When performing, setting up material, be an artist. Be the creative release that helps a comedian get through their day. Off stage, before the stage and after the stage, that is a business. Be successful and earn the payment of performing.

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Talent of Self : 5 Helpful ways to develop yourself

• BBR Productions Inc : Talent of Self : 5 Helpful ways to develop yourself

Every journey begins with an idea. That venture takes shape with direction, dedication, and decisions. These helpful tips will lend an inside look into what earns a person their personal Talent of self. You matter to you, and the stronger you are the more you can give to others.

1. Write a list out (Direction) : This sets the path for where the feet want to go. Knowing where a journey will end helps keep the mind focused instead of stopping to figure things out. This list can be added to and or taken away from based on changes as they come.

2. Check List (Dedication) : Watching that check list fill up with finish marks truly motivates the mind. Pumps up that nice reminder that things are getting completed. It also shows a person how far they have come since the first day getting up and out into the world of Doing.

3. Plant your feet (Decisions) : Know what you want. When you have to weigh out ideas those ideas are not strong enough to put energy into them. They might come up in the future and the choice to do will come naturally. Stay focused and know everything takes time. Failure improves the outcome.

4. The Right Reason (Direction, Dedication, and Decisions) : Making choices to improve your life is a difficult action. The best way to take charge of these changes is to accept the ones that help build personal value. If the choice is about money, or fear driven, those choices are misleading you.

5. The Dream : Everyone has a dream to become successful among the Stars. Think about the journey, think about what you want and how to get there. One day at a time will make things happen. The end result is easy to dream. DOING is the part that can create fear. Simple steps of self growth is a talent!

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Talent of Self : Habit Building

• BBR Productions Inc : Talent of Self : Habit Building

A Habit by definition is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary. It takes roughly 21-30 days for a Habit to begin sticking. Creating a Habit allows for Tasks to be accomplished through second nature. What needs to be important will become natural movement. People, in general, place Habit Building to turn “Yes” into “No”. Negative thinking, seeing walls around you, are all ways of finding how NOT to accomplishing things.

Make it Daily. Consistency is critical if you want to make a habit stick. If you want to start exercising, go to the gym every day for your first thirty days. Start Simple; don’t try to completely change your life in one day. It is easy to get over-motivated and take on too much. If you wanted to study two hours a day, first make the habit to go for thirty minutes and build on that. Remind Yourself around two weeks into your commitment, it can be easy to forget.

Stay Consistent making it easier for a habit to stick. Or form a Trigger with a simple ritual you use right before executing your habit. For example; To quit smoking, practice snapping your fingers each time you felt the urge to pick up a cigarette. Be Imperfect and never expect all your attempts to change habits to be successful immediately. Remove Temptation! Write it Down on a piece of paper. Do it For Yourself. Tool your habits towards your goals and the things that motivate you.

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Talent of Self : Being Healthy

• BBR Productions Inc : Talent of Self : Being Healthy 

There are many things a person can do to keep both a sharp mind & a fit body to maintain an ability in focusing. Cutting it down to essentials for simplicity; Eating and Exercising. Being Healthy is required for the Talent of Self. Being the best one can be starts at self. How valuable are we to our life? Without ourselves there is no life. Yet, people throughout the world give more to objects, jobs, and people than they do themselves. Be the best you so you can be the best for others.

Eating correctly fuels the mind and body. Keeping energy up enough to climb mountains. Properly prepared meals throughout the day can assist mental and physical stimulants. Setting up a workout routine is helpful both for physical strength enhancement, and habit building. Get on a weekly routine schedule actual helps a mind focus. Please consult a dietitian and a professional trainer to help decided your best course of action.

At times a day will get away from a person. Making it difficult to keep a regiment. This is okay, there is always tomorrow. However, finding a solution is as simple as getting up earlier, or when a person awakes; eat a nice strong breakfast, or healthy quick bite, then jump onto an exercise routine. Once that is complete, eat a big healthy meal. Again, a dietitian and trainer would best help figure these out. Schedule wise, give to yourself when you wake, and before you go to sleep. You deserve it.

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Talent of Self : Self Development of Skills

• BBR Productions Inc : Talent of Self : Self Development of Skills

As a person discovers their Strengths & Weaknesses, through visually listing them, they can now begin developing. Skills are what grands us abilities to get things completed, or even understand complicated situations. A strong mind, body and focus will help eliminate walls which may be standing in the way of success. Gaining new skills, or increasing the value of older skills, a person's job is to continuously improve upon their abilities while searching out newer areas.

Mental Equations can be approached smoother with a proficiency in Mind Skills; Mathematics, Brainstorming, Business, etc. A Mind worked in puzzle solving and information gathering is a mind worth having. Physical tasks come and go. The stronger a body, the more available will ease become to overpower these obstacles. Focus is learning to take out the fuzz. Distractions. Learning to such off background noise; Social Medias should be off, working on more than one thing. Focus to overcome.

Be proficient in a small amount of many skills. Finding the correct steps to walk up will dictate which skills should be defined. However, all skills are important, but knowing a little about a lot gives a person that heads up over competition, or at minimum, the ability to help members of their team succeed. Knowing what need to get finished, or what direction should be taken, comes down to being able to understand enough about enough to make a lot happen.

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Talent of Self : Strengths and Weaknesses

• BBR Productions Inc : Talent of Self : Strengths and Weaknesses

There are two mindsets that can take a person to another level. That level could be the next top one or to the bottom floor. A negative mind is constantly seeing how many weaknesses they might have. Or in the same aspect, a completely positive mind believing in how amazingly awesome their strengths are. Then, there is the Schooled Mind. A Schooled Mind see their weaknesses and continues to learn from them while maintaining and utilizing their Strengths to better those weaknesses.

Look at life as a sense of harmony over comparing how poorly or how grand one's skills are. Maximize talents through understanding how powerful a weakness can become if practiced upon. Strengths help guide S.M.A.R.T. Goals when focused on what can be accomplished now. Ignoring either side of a person's weaknesses or strengths can hinder movement forward. Awareness allows history to change. Learn from what we have and do not have to utilize.

What benefits does a strength have? What about the benefits of a weakness? Or where does a strength and or weakness hinder us? As all skills need practice, so do both strengths and weaknesses. A person can become one with themselves through harmony. Combining these skills into one solid motion into life challenges. Even the greatest warriors have a weakness, as the weakest people have hidden in them sometimes the greatest strength! Be aware and continue learning about yourself!

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3 Needs of Longevity – 5 Does to help your Longevity

• BBR Productions Inc : 3 Needs of Longevity – 5 Does to help your Longevity

Longevity is a combination of Management, Entrepreneurial knowledge, and a person's Talent. These things are limited by perseverance. Maintaining a will to move passed failure, collapse or inner defeat gives an individual longevity with a career. Resolve must bust out with action. The act to do, to move forward with expectation that failing is an option. Below are five “Does” to help maintain the will forward, and longevity of a career.

1. Remind yourself you deserve to try. When you feel slighted or your will falters, take a moment to breathe. Once you are thinking without emotion look into a mirror and remind you of yourself. Why you are here doing what it is you want to do. You are a living being, you deserve it.

2. When it comes to managing time and money; writing it down is a smart thing to do. Physically seeing your efforts in front of you keeps a mind on target. Keeping records of income and expenses show if you are under or over or close to your budget caps. Record your life.

3. Be self aware. Jotting down skills that you are good at, bad at, or even certain skills you would like to learn is a way to remind you of you. What you are capable of. What you would like to be capable of. Take control back into your hands by being completely self aware of everything you are or could be.

4. Research, Research, Research. Any venture you are interested to do, look into the ins and outs of how that business works. Assumption leads to failure in a negative way. As the definition of Insane is doing an activity repetitively expecting a different outcome. There is more than what you think.

5. Be mindful of your bills. The 1st of the month can come up pretty quick when you are having fun. Are you placing money to the side as needed? Leaving your money in a lump sum!? Budget your bills within your overhead caps, and spend within those caps by placing due dates on your calendars.

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3 Needs of Longevity – Getting there is only the beginning

• BBR Productions Inc : 3 Needs of Longevity – Getting there is only the beginning

With dedication success is very attainable. Though, what is success? Our definition of Success: A Client working in their field interest without a day job. Getting to that level takes a tremendous amount of effort. Once there, it is about maintaining that position of success while also growing opportunities. In life there needs to be a sense of ascension; never reaching a plateau. Keeping 3 Needs of Longevity in check helps perpetuate one's career.

Longevity is a combination of 3 Needs; Management, Entrepreneur, and Talent. Control over these aspects of Longevity turn success of a dream into a career for life. Management: focus on organizing time, money, self, and others. Entrepreneur: companies are ran in the green not the red. Talent: skills, tasks, each side of our Triangle of life. Focusing on only a talent, or practicing to be the best “anything” is a sure way a system will collapse. A powerful synergetic relationship between the 3 is crucial.

It is important to get organized before jumping out of a plane; Parachute, check... Socks, check... Gopro camera recording! CHECK! Set up a plan of action with S.M.A.R.T. Goals to get a monthly budget going. Know the strength of incorporating a venture. To keep Longevity's value up, practice talents to be ready for any situation. Getting there is only where it all begins. Be more than an idea, be actionable! It takes effort to keep it going way after success is captured!

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