The last little bit of this course I want to talk about a couple of different things dealing with hecklers and dealing with failure. They sound like two different subjects, but they're really about the same thing. And they're about this, you need to accept that this is not going to go perfectly. And that's okay. And by this, I don't just mean getting up on stage and doing stand up comedy, I mean, life, I mean, your life, I mean, everybody's life. I mean, living in the world, things are not always going to go according to plan, and you have to learn to roll with it.

Now, I've had way more jokes fail on me in front of audiences than I've ever had worked out. And you might say, Brandon, how's that possible? How can you be a professional comedian and have that happen? Well, it's tricky. You eventually learn what material works and you start using it more and more. And that's actually how you develop a career doing comedy.

But in order to get there, you have to have a lot of things not work out. You know, eventually you start having things work out, you get a better sense of it. You get a better sense of how to deal with it. And when you're on stage, you get a better sense of how to deal with hecklers. But when you're first starting out like you, when you're first looking at trying to get on stage and do five minutes of comedy, just getting up and doing it is the win. So, before you even go out and do your first open mic, I want you to sit down and just say to yourself, this is going to go however it goes, it could go well, it could go poorly.

But this is going to go for me. And I'm going to be here one way or another after it's done. And one of the things I talk to comedians about a lot people who want to get into comedy that is, is how they will survive, they'll survive. And so will you one way or another, you're going to be here on the other side of you getting up and doing five minutes of comedy. And I promise you, it's probably going to go great. It's not going to be paying paying full, it won't be paying list, but it won't be painful either.

And on the other side of it, you're going to be fine. In fact, you'll be a better version of yourself than you were before you got on stage. That's the way I want you to think about dealing with hecklers and dealing with audiences because here's the thing hecklers will always be there. There will always be people who are haters. There'll always be people who will not like you, they're going to say things like, You're the worst, you're terrible. They're going to interrupt you, they're going to, they're going to try to ruin the thing that you're doing.

And they won't do this your first time on stage, probably. So most of the likely what's going to happen is you're going to get up on stage. And someone's going to say, this is his or her first time, and everybody in the crowd is going to erupt with applause because it takes a lot of guts to get up on stage and do this. And you're going to be supported by a group of strangers, probably that's going to happen, actually. But if it doesn't happen, that's okay, too. It's okay.

Because you did the thing you wanted to do. You sail the ship through the rapids, and not everybody gets to do that. And now you're one of the few who did throughout your whole life. You can always think about that. You can always think about how you got on stage and even if somebody decided to give you a bad word while you were up there. You totally nailed it.

Now dealing with audiences is similar audiences are like a wave, you got to serve them. Stuart Lee, who's a stand up comedian is famous for saying you have to play the audience you're dealt, you can't play a different audience, the audience you're in front of is the one you have to deal with. I'm doing three shows this coming weekend, and I don't know which audiences I'm going to have to deal with. And sometimes some shows are very different from other shows, sometimes material that worked in one show really well doesn't work at all in a different show. And you've just got to make it up as you go along. But that's the beauty of stand up comedy, in one way or another live comedy is exactly what it's going to be.

And it's going to be unique for you as a performer. And it's going to be unique for the audience. And you have to trust your gut and roll with it. And you cannot learn those skills anywhere else. You have to learn them on stage. And because this is your first time on stage, you're not going to have them, but that's okay.

Because you're going to learn them. You're going to learn a lot of them the first time you get up, that experience is going to whether or not you get on stage again, stay with you the rest of your life. And I want you to think about that because I would encourage you to continue doing stand up comedy Try it 10 1520 times, try it for a whole month, try it for six months, find out every time you can go on stage in the next six weeks and do that if you're living in a major city, you could probably do it every day. That sounds like a lot. But at the end of that time, you're going to know a lot about yourself. And you can make a decision as to whether or not you want to continue doing it.

Maybe you took this course because you wanted to learn how to be funny or public speaking. I think writing jokes and talking about gesture and things like this helped with that. Maybe you took this course because you wanted to learn, stand up comedy specifically and know whether or not it was right for you. I think after you getting up on stage, you'll have a better sense of that. Specifically, after you get up on stage five or six times you'll have a better sense of it. Maybe took this course because you just wanted to understand more deeply how comedians developed the material and and get a richer experience when you go see comedy either on Netflix or live.

And I hope you got that out of this course too. There's a lot of thought and a lot of work that goes into it. Maybe you took this course to break through a barrier of fear You know you've had, and I hope, no matter what you took this course for that you have now the tools at the end of it to appreciate moving past the barrier of fear a lot of people will never try stand up comedy. And after you get up on stage and do it for five minutes, you won't be one of them, you'll be the person who did the thing they were afraid of. So when it comes to hecklers, or audiences, or any other of the thousand or million nameless things that you might be afraid of when getting on stage and thinking that there are problems you have to solve before you get up.

You don't. You don't need to memorize your material. You don't need to know how to deal with a heckler You don't even know need to know how to serve a specific audience. Honestly, you don't even really need to have material. You don't even need to have your material memorized. You actually don't even really need to have jokes, because what is stand up comedy at its most basic, it's an audience and person talking to them.

That's it, and you're going to try to make them laugh. All you have to have is the impulse and the confidence to do it. And I think now working through the rehearsal And the writing of the material and thinking about getting on stage and believing in yourself. I think now you have that confidence. So, thanks for taking this course I really appreciate it. There's going to be an intermediate course that goes more in depth in terms of not only how to do shows how to build time, how to get booked a little bit more how to get paid doing comedy, and I would encourage you to take that course after you've gotten up on stage.

Please do not hesitate to email me. Leave comments. And honestly, I'd love to hear how your first time when if you have the guts, please record it and put it on YouTube and send me the link. I would absolutely love to watch it. I will even give you feedback if you want it. Take care.

Thanks so much. I'm Brandon lemon, and I hope you guys had a great time and I hope you have a great time getting up on stage.