So now you've got your five minutes, you've got it edited, you've been rehearsing it, you've got it a solid, you're rehearsing it to the place where it's coming in at about between five and six minutes. Normally, when you're on stage, if you're rehearsing slowly, and then you're delivering faster time, onstage in front of a live audience, your heart will be going quicker. You're going to get through that material faster. Things go from about five minutes and 30 seconds to about five minutes for 45. That kind of thing you want to come in at about five minutes. I'm most open mics, and that's what we're going to talk about in this video are going to function in a couple of different ways.

It's either a lottery, or it's what we call show up go up, which means you show up, you sign up, you get up when they call your name. And most of these mics have a handful of rules and the host will tell you the rules at the beginning of the mic. The most mics have rules that are pretty simple. They're like we're going to light you with one minute. You're going to do four minutes a comedy will let you in three minutes or you're going to do five minutes. We'll let you have four minutes.

One of those types of things. But what I want to do is show you guys how you can find open mic in your area. I know this is gonna seem tedious. And if you're like he's just about to Google this stuff, you're right I am. So if you don't want to be here for the Google, and you think you already know how to do this, I would encourage you to just go ahead and skip this video. But for those of you who are maybe really not sure what to do with this, this is a great place to start.

So we'll just type in, and I'm just going to type in open mics. Chicago. thing, open mic. Now, this is what you'll get most of the time. Something of the bars. Something that's at the top like a reference site.

This is comedy Chicago calm, which is run by a guy named James camps here in Chicago. He's got a whole bunch of different open mics, and shows listed on his website. We also got an open mic Chicago, it's a whole bunch of stuff that you can dive into but what if you don't live in a major city? That's what I'm thinking a lot of you are thinking about? What do I But what if I don't live in? You can see some more popping up here.

What if I don't live in a major city? What if I live in in the middle of nowhere? Let's do open mics. Bismarck North Dakota. Let's a comedy open mic. Here we go open mic night on Facebook.

Now this is a great place. Facebook is an amazing resource for you to go to. I'm not going to jump in and show you my Facebook. But there are a lot of comedy groups in whatever area you belong to that you can join on. Facebook's really simple. All you have to do is just write in comedy and then the area that you live in comedy, Michigan comedy, Nebraska comedy, Omaha comedy, Anchorage, Alaska, and you're going to get groups on Facebook that talk about these things.

It's a super, super simple way to do it. But as you can see here, we've already found one just Bismarck knows North Dakota is in the middle of nowhere in the United States. And that's where it goes by the way if you're watching this video You live internationally, this is the same thing. So I do a show called funny planet, wherein me and a couple other comedians, we go around the planet looking for comedy scenes and comedians to interview that are interesting and international. And we've found comedy all over the world by doing this from Reykjavik, Iceland, all the way to Amman, Jordan, you can literally just find it very simply by googling, and then by looking on Facebook. So what I want you to do in the homework here is to find this open mic.

Go ahead, find one in your area and plan to go there, contact the person who runs it and see how to do it. Just go Hey, I'm new to comedy. I want to get up on stage and try it out for the first time. How do I do that? And they if they're a real comedian, it'll probably take them a few days to get back to you. And then they're gonna say, yeah, just show up or I'll put your name on the list or any number of these things.

And you can see here, Samson Hurley, Tina Wenzel, they've already got their their names on here. So you know who these people are. So I would encourage you to Google just use Google comedy open mic and then your area. Or if it's not a comedy open mic if there is no comedy open mics, and that can happen. I used to live in Boulder, Colorado, there were no comedy open mics, there was a regular open mic. And what an irregular open mic is.

Just to explain the difference is that comedy open mics are focused on comedians coming in and telling jokes. Regular open mic is just anybody can come and do it. There's going to be people with guitars, there's going to be people singing, there's going to be spoken word poetry, but you're going to go in and do comedy and it is going to be a little weird, but I would encourage you to just just stay strong, grab your bravery and go through it. I actually used to have to do a regular open mic where I in Boulder I would go get up on stage and in in between people singing songs or beatboxing and then I would do a bunch of jokes in it. was a little bit awkward but you get used to it really quickly. So, if you don't have a comedy open mic, you should go to a regular open mic but try to find a comedy open mic for your first time.