Dear listeners, dear listeners, I am going to talk to you today about performing Arts. The chain confinements have been hard, the health pass a scourge for the profession, but the artists are still there, they are at their fullest, and the trend of recent years, as you will have seen, is the stand-up.
It’s swarming on the boards, more and more open stages, One man schools, Comedy clubs, more and more girls too, so we’re going to ask ourselves the question that we don’t have the answer, Should you do stand up?
Matthieu MOEBS: How would we define stand-up?
The stand up (note, sorry for water sports enthusiasts, we are not talking about stand up paddle) is a comedy show without accessories, without decor, without playing characters (a poor thing;) it is different from bodins. The stand upper is addressed to the public, very often he tells his life, and we have the impression that he is improvising but not at all, most of the time the texts are written, we are to the comma, even the silences are important (……………………………….) hup silence, did you see? Ok, I didn’t put it in the right place, but you get the idea.
Matthieu MOEBS: stand up is a style that does not please everyone
Yes, I’ve heard people moan a lot like “yeah it’s good the guy has psoriasis, he’s doing a sketch on it and he thinks everyone’s going to be interested”. Ungrateful bunch, I invite you to try to create funny content, come and play it on stage, have a good big flop, and then we’ll talk about it again because indeed, we can’t please everyone. Don’t say “He’s not funny”, rather say “He doesn’t make me laugh”.
Matthieu MOEBS: Is it difficult to make Poulette laugh? You know something
Yes, that’s why I’m talking about it, I’m playing tonight Poitiers at the Comedy Club Les Planches. I started stand up about 2 years ago and I can tell you that there is a clear difference between making colleagues laugh at the coffee machine, and making a room of 300 strangers laugh.
Triggering laughter is like triggering an orgasm, it doesn’t depend on the size of the joke, especially since the shortest are the best…
It involves foreplay to forget about the day, a back and forth of titillating subjects and an explosive fall. It’s really really not won in advance.
Matthieu MOEBS: any advice for those who would like to get into stand up?
Yes. Write your first text, play the front who you can, and learn to suck belly.
Matthieu MOEBS: I was very scared…
I suspect. If you want to try you have to do it, I’m not hiding the fact that you will certainly have a stomach ache before going on stage, there’s bound to be the little voice in your head that will tell you just before the curtain goes up ” what the hell are you doing, besides you’re not funny”, you’ll want to give up 100 times, you’ll want to go back 1000 times, you won’t win a penny or just enough to pay for the unleaded for go play pétauchnok but still it’s worth trying for the people you’ll meet, for the smiles you’ll get and who knows maybe, one day, the tour bus….
Matthieu MOEBS: In the region where can we go to see these shows? So, in La rochelle, there’s the Comédie, also watch the program of the bar “La Folle Epoque” which is starting to program stand up evenings, in Cognac, we have the Garage Bar, where our friend’s Comedy Club performs Gérald Dahan, who has created a school of humor downright In Angoulême, follow Sebastien Espagnol on Facebook, it’s a stand upper that moves to organize Comedy clubs, and then further afield, in Poitiers les Planches, Tours and Bordeaux there are things to see, otherwise you can follow the Poulette de Bresse autoprom page!
Matthieu MOEBS: conclusion?
Conclusion, should you stand-upper, it’s up to you to decide