Today, 09:19 AM
(03-20-2017, 02:23 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: If I was a standup comedian, I'd go on tour and freestyle the whole thing
Josh Johnson does that. He has a new set every week. I'm pretty sure he's the first person to have success doing this. I think it's important to have good timing and also be able to turn pretty much anything into a narrative, and, whatever you think of his politics, he is as close to a genius as it gets--in this capacity, at least. I think he does it to stay topical, not unlike South Park.
People in the audience, who have come to know him for using a story from his life as a lead-in to current affairs, go crazy when he does the "tie-in moment".
He also does straight-up bits; there's one where he feels like he would fail on both ends of the zombie apocalypse -- he'd be too grossed out by the decaying faces to run from them, and then he'd be too effeminate as a zombie to fit in with the undead fellas, lol.
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Most comedians do learn to improv, though, or come up through improv, and it's important in terms of bantering when being interviewed.
