I want to do a quick other video about local comedy that I would encourage you to go see local comedy, whether that's stand up or improv or sketch, I would encourage you to please go see some local comedy support it, you're going to be part of it soon, because you're going to be doing stand up in an open mic, I would encourage you to go to an open mic, look it up, look up, open, just google open mics in my area and find one that's about comedy. You might live in the middle of nowhere. You might live in a country where this thing doesn't happen very regularly. It's okay. Try to go find something. You don't have to participate yet.

You don't even have to go and talk to these people yet. But I would encourage you to go do it. The second thing I would like to say in terms of developing a good sense of humor is being funny with your friends. And a lot of people are funny socially. And sometimes when I speak to them about doing stand up, they say things like Well, I'm funny with my friends, but it's a different context. I'm not really funny.

I wouldn't be funny on stage. That's not at all, most of the best bits that I have come from things, I sat in front of other people in a moment and then wrote down and later figured out. Later, I worked it into a stand up comedy bed. And it was just as funny on stage if not funnier than it was when I originally set it with the people I was with. Now, some comedians believe that there's only really one way to get funnier. And that's by hanging out with other funny people.

Jerry Seinfeld is one of those people. He says that hanging out with comedians is really part of the reason why he's so funny. I think that's probably true. Most of the best bits I've ever come up with, and most of the best times I've ever had, I've just been hanging out with other comedians around comedy shows. So before you even get on stage, I would encourage you, please go check out local comedy, it'll be awesome to support it, you'll see what it's really like, you'll get a sense of why people do it because it's so much fun. And also, you'll begin to cultivate a social group of people who hopefully have some comedians in it, and you'll begin to understand those people a little bit and absorb through the process of osmosis socially, their sense of humor.

Doing that is going to help really take you from not just being a funny person to an extremely funny person. It's like putting rockets on your feet as you attempt to ascend this mountain of comedy. So please do that. Take a look locally, go see some comedy shows just google comedy in my area, go to Facebook and type in your biggest town locally, and then put in comedy and you'll see what groups come up. Go ask to join them. Go follow those comedians and see what's going on.

I'm sure something is happening this weekend in your area, and you should go check it out.