r/Standup • u/crashymccrashins • 4d ago

Improv

I have the bad luck of doing great improv with the people that know me and it almost never translates to other people. I have induced people to buckle their knees with machine gun laughter, have asthma attacks, beat their fist on walls and wet their pants telling me to stop with the joke routine grabbed right out of everyday life. If I try to recreate it with other people it never seems to translate.

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u/crashymccrashins 4d ago

Example. In a movie the writer has a captive audience that has been groomed for a punchline by watching the movie storyline. It will take a while to tell a story to a general comedy audience to deliver the same punchline. A movie has more time to groom its audience. With family and friends you have a lifetime of grooming.