Here's a final word about rehearsing that I want to talk to you about as you've been rehearsing. You've got your jokes, you've been reading through them, you've been recording yourself. What do you do with these recordings? I said, listen back to him before but specifically, what do you do? What I want to encourage you to do is put on your earphones and go for a walk, I want you to go for a walk. Maybe if you can't go for a walk, just sit down and meditate with them.

And what I want you to do is begin speaking the same lines, the same jokes, the same setups at the same time, as you're speaking them in the recording. So say them out loud at the same time you're listening to yourself, say them in the recording. Why do you want to do this because this will really help you internalize those words. It's not just the saying them out loud. It's the internalization and then the speaking through them also, you're going to go slowly, you're going to speak slowly. You might even feel awkward a little bit walking around.

If you live in a city, with people passing you as you speak these things out loud, doesn't matter. Do it anyway. Go And do it because you're going to have to break past your feeling of discomfort because you're eventually going to say them on stage. So just accept that this is the first barrier, you're going to walk through as you're attempting to overcome your fear of stand up comedy. So as you're walking around repeating these things, eventually I want you to move away from using that at all. I want you to move away from using the recording, I want you to move away from using the sheet.

I want you to just stand in front of a mirror in your apartment, whether or not you have the mic stand and I want you to go and perform your stand up comedy. feel it in your body, feel your feet on the floor, watch yourself, do it. look yourself in the eyes. If it feels awkward, it is a little bit awkward, but it's going to be a lot better when you get on stage. This is the time for you to improve. This is the number one thing that you can do before you get on stage is rehearse in this very specific way.

Internalize the words. Now do them in front of a mirror and don't necessarily do them in front of your friends. If you want to do that you can but do them in front of a mirror and be your own judge but encourage yourself Think about all the things you're doing right now. Oh man, I nailed that joke. I got that pause. I gestured in this way that I thought was really funny when I watched myself from the mirror, all of that is really good.

Chris Rock, in fact does this he will rehearse in his own apartment with three different mirrors and watch himself deliver jokes from different perspectives, it helps him understand what he has to do to make those jokes, the funniest. But what this does for you, is just reinforce that you actually know what you're doing. You're kicking a ton of, but by doing this course, and you're gonna kick even more when you're onstage, so internalize those words, feel proud of yourself, get away from using the recording, get away from using the sheet, and you're going to have those words inside of you. Even if you start using different words that aren't exactly the ones you wrote down, it doesn't matter, you're going to be great anyway, because you've internalized it, you're going to get through your setups, you're going to get to your punch lines. And the point of all this is just to do the five minutes on stage.

If you get even one laugh the whole time you're on stage, then you did better than the first time I ever did stand up comedy boy. Was that a downer? Okay. Anyway, this is the final word on rehearsing. Just keep it going. Winston Churchill once said that he rehearsed an hour for every minute he had in a speech.

If that's true, then it means you're going to need to rehearse for about five hours, which is great. That's about half an hour between now a day between now and when you end up going up on stage, it'll probably be in about 10 days. We're going to look it up in the next lecture on this course. And that'll give you enough time to really internalize this and kick a ton of but when you're on stage, most open mics never rehearse that much. So you're going to have a leg up