What is Standup Comedy?

Standup Comedy is an art form where a standup comedian (the person who does Standup Comedy) tries to make his/her listeners / viewers laugh with his/her Funny Acts. A standup comedian prepares an act majorly involving but not limited to jokes, funny story telling, funny mannerisms, one-liners, monologues, satires, sarcasm, comic timing, witty spontaneous humor, etc. Standup comedy tries to create humor from the simplest to the toughest of things to which a set of audience can connect. Standup comedy hits different when it is done extremely responsibly with an eye to actually create humor for the audiences without influencing their mind negatively. This can be achieved simply by avoiding below the belt and vulgar or similar comedy. Creating humor from the simplest of things is the best approach for standup comedy.

What is the Toughest Part of Standup Comedy?

The toughest part of Standup Comedy is that the comedian is all alone and for himself while doing standup as it is not a team skit or drama where more than one people are involved. This increases the degree of difficulty of this solo art as on the opposite side in a team art, there is scope of support and filling up for each other if something goes haywire.

Standup Comedy – Types of Topics?

Standup comedy can be done around a wide range of limitless topics but majorly it is done around these ones –
1. Evergreen and Relatable Topics – These are topics to which maximum people do relate to but kind of fails to recognize the straight forward or hidden humor around it as their mind does not think around that. Example of these are maybe a Train Journey, Weight Loss and Fitness, etc.
2. Hyperbole and Curiously Attractive Topics – In these topics, a real world concept is mixed to an imaginary one using which humor is tried to be created using principles and properties of both. Example of these are Middle Class Daily Olympics, Gale Lagne aur Padne Mein Antar Hota Hai, Panoti Mitra, etc.
These are just a few broad Topic types. However there can be a wise range of imaginary, real world, factual, etc. topics that can come across.