Try Something Completely Different

Sometimes you can learn more about yourself and your act by doing something out of the ordinary.

For instance, you have an act that you do with your character. One of you is the straight guy while the other is the comedian. Ok. You have that mastered. Now switch it completely up.

Turn on a video recorder and do your act completely backward. You do all the lines your puppet does and let the puppet do all the lines that you would do. Do this at least three times then play back the video of your new show. Take careful notes about what you see.

You will discover that there are things that maybe need to be reversed on a permanent basis. There will be things that you will find to be hilarious in the reverse. Figure out how to incorporate these things into your show.

Once you find some new things, change your script to match the new lines and practice several more times before you perform this new way for an audience.

Get someone that you know to watch the new method and give you some feedback on how it works for them.

We will talk again next week.

Steve and JET

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