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for everyone who came to the workshop here is the points i covered……I hope to add some more stuff to this later in the week

1. Doing sets outside of comedy clubs
2. Doing as many sets as you possible can
3. Listen to as much as you can
4. Watch the whole show
5. Be careful of structure…edgy then clean rarely works but the other way around does.  Comedy is layers
6. If you have material about someone or a certain group of people and they are in the audience you should not shy away from doing that material.  If you do…you should not be doing it period
7. Whatever you say be willing to say it to someone else’s face
8. Learn now you are never too good to learn from someone else even in comedy (Glen foster Calgary story)
9. Remember a lot of stuff you will be bothered by, in four months it will mean nothing to you.  Being jealous of others press.  Someone getting something and you did not etc.  This is not a race with anyone else but yourself
10.  The same amount you bitch or wine you should be spending writing new jokes.
11.  If you ask someone there opinion be willing to accept the truth.
12.  The cleaner you are the better…believe me.  Being an edgy comic is not all it’s cracked up to be.  If you do want to be one be prepared for failure.  If you can deal with that then fine.
13.  Remember this is show business…the word business is bigger then show
14.  Topics to avoid: cancer/abortion/religion/pedophile
15.  Energy is useless