Wednesday 24 February 2016

Whats your genre as a comedian

Over the years besides being a performing comedian, I have also taken out time to study comedy as an art in a bid to understand the undertone behind all the funniness.. and upon discovery I have found out how broad comedy is... Just like music, comedy too have genres and this genres are definitive of your style as a comedian... n/b being spontaneous is not a genre it's just an added advantage that comes with the art which enables a comedian freestyle with the audience displaying his wits... Now back to the order of the day, this genres varies according to the said style and topics a comedian chooses as his focal point of concentration.. we have satire/topical, observation, blue, black, deadpan, insult, mockumentary, wit/wordplay, surreal, sketch, sitcom, spoof, prop, physical, musical comedy, improvisational, cringe, character and alternative comedy... All of these genres cannot be done as stand up comedy. It's a definitive term to be a comedian and specifically to be a stand up comedian this is because one can be a sketch comedian, a ventriloquist or an improv comedian or you could be an actor who specialises on comedy sketch and plays only but the problem we have now is because every one who is getting into comedy is seeing stand up as the top dog so they must hold a mic and stand in front of an audience to perform and most times end up becoming an embarrassment to the art... Comedy looks like a stupid venture but it takes a smart mind to create humour out of bizarre situations like death, accidents, earthquake, economic crunch, political drama or sometimes create a whole non-existing character and make funny stories out of it... Like Jeff Ross the king of roast who would go to prison and make jokes out inmates and yet not causing an uproar... Although my best genre of comedy is satire, and observation it's like an eye opener to certain things the society is aware of but could not see differently so as a comedian you have to give them your own point of view and make them see things the way it ought to be... You also have to understand that these genres where created by humans living as a matter of fact it is out of consistency that people could be able to say that this is a genre or style of comedy.. in other words you too can create your own genre, stick to it and make the world accept it for what it is... I think this is where I drop the pen and fall the stool as I take a voluntary bow out of the stage #goodnight and God bless Nwachi is the name

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