Standup Comedy – Can anyone do it?

By
Christian
– July 9, 2008Posted in: Stuff

Certainly as the comedy industry gets bigger and bigger, more and more comics, writers and producers are needed – but what are the chances of a journalist (notorious for their absent sense of humour) making the grade as a comic?

Richard Morris – the chief reporter at the Hastings and St Leonards
Observer – recently took to the stage after a local comedy club manager offered
him a ten-minute slot following a professional turn, and his first-ever gig has created some buzz on the comedy scene
leading to Morris being scheduled to appear at London’s Comedy Store.

You can check out a Youtube video of Morris below – I wonder if he has a gag writer…

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_4auYDFWSg]

About Christian

I like to write a bit about comedy, have had a script performed in the Sitcom Trials and perhaps I even fancy myself as a standup...