Tag Archives: standup

Microphone Technique

By Andrew | Published: March 4, 2010
Last Monday was week five of my stand up comedy course (read about week 1, 3 and 4). For the first time I used a microphone during my set. I’ll be honest, using a microphone is fairly trivial. Just point it towards your mouth and speak. But my instructor, Joe Charles, explained a few finer [...]
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Link round up: February

By Andrew | Published: March 1, 2010
I’ve decided to start a monthly round up of links related to public speaking. These posts will list the the month’s best posts from The Naked Speaker and the best of what I have seen from around the web including articles and videos/audio of excellent speeches. In the past I have posted a few things [...]
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What’s the worse that can happen?

By Andrew | Published: February 22, 2010
There’s potential for lots of things to go wrong. But at least you can console your self with the fact that it’s unlikely to be as bad as the stand up comedy gig described in this clip by Bill Hicks. (Click here to watch this 5:43 minute video on YouTube)
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