Whenever a man or woman talks in front of a genuinely gigantic audience they must engage cognitive faculties to both recall their presentation or jokes, and more importantly: quell their fears and anxieties from within. Often the larger the audience, the more significant this cost of anxiety on cognition is. The real reason this is... is because a certain amount (possibly even scientifically quantifiable) of cognitive energy that was used for the recalling of jokes stored away in synapses is now being utilized to suppress your anxieties and prevent overexcitation and excessive adrenal rush.
There is one and only one answer for this rather disappointing fact and that's rehearsal. The more you rehearse these things in your mind, the more you burn something into your mind to the point that it eventually becomes as natural and mechanistic as driving your car. In fact, if you mentally transport yourself to the very first time you drove your car you will remember how challenging it was the first time, but now that you have been doing it for years it may feel nearly as natural as breathing.
The less conscious, active energy you have to dump into delivering a script the greater your capacity to get laughs while in front of even really large, and difficult audiences will be. This can only occur after pain-staking, exhausting rehearsal has transpired -- much like those first handful of joy rides in that car of yours.
However, often public speaking isn't as fundamental to every day life as, for example, driving a car or truck is. Most often it's an act of self-actualization. Thus, it requires more determination on the part of the presenter, or comedian. A good test for a person's stage preparedness when delivering is whether they are able to maintain eye contact with members of a smaller audience for any reasonable amount of time while delivering their jokes.
Try this smaller styled rehearsal with a a number of friends, preferably a few that bust your chops regularily, before doing stand up in front of a large audience in a comedy club. Do you have a habit of looking away when peforming the routine? If happens to be so, then you have probably not rehearsed your jokes enough in private. Find a few new ways to push your personal boundaries and run through your routine and deliveries more rapidly. Chug caffeine if necessary, find a peaceful, quiet place, and bring a tape recorder. Record yourself giving the presentation (perhaps read from script), and then try to race your own recording to recall your own punchlines more quickly than you said them even on the audio recording.
There is one and only one answer for this rather disappointing fact and that's rehearsal. The more you rehearse these things in your mind, the more you burn something into your mind to the point that it eventually becomes as natural and mechanistic as driving your car. In fact, if you mentally transport yourself to the very first time you drove your car you will remember how challenging it was the first time, but now that you have been doing it for years it may feel nearly as natural as breathing.
The less conscious, active energy you have to dump into delivering a script the greater your capacity to get laughs while in front of even really large, and difficult audiences will be. This can only occur after pain-staking, exhausting rehearsal has transpired -- much like those first handful of joy rides in that car of yours.
However, often public speaking isn't as fundamental to every day life as, for example, driving a car or truck is. Most often it's an act of self-actualization. Thus, it requires more determination on the part of the presenter, or comedian. A good test for a person's stage preparedness when delivering is whether they are able to maintain eye contact with members of a smaller audience for any reasonable amount of time while delivering their jokes.
Try this smaller styled rehearsal with a a number of friends, preferably a few that bust your chops regularily, before doing stand up in front of a large audience in a comedy club. Do you have a habit of looking away when peforming the routine? If happens to be so, then you have probably not rehearsed your jokes enough in private. Find a few new ways to push your personal boundaries and run through your routine and deliveries more rapidly. Chug caffeine if necessary, find a peaceful, quiet place, and bring a tape recorder. Record yourself giving the presentation (perhaps read from script), and then try to race your own recording to recall your own punchlines more quickly than you said them even on the audio recording.
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