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There's an art to stand-up which is different from podcasting. Just like there's a difference between being a live vocalist and podcasting. Look at Bill Burr's
by gexla 7y ago
There's an art to stand-up which is different from podcasting. Just like there's a difference between being a live vocalist and podcasting.
Look at Bill Burr's podcasts for example, they are far different from his stand-up. Part of a stand-up career is to travel the country and perform the same jokes to every crowd. They aren't exactly the same because you iterate on them every time. Once you have told the same joke X times, then it becomes robust like a method in a program which have gone multiple rewrites and bug fixes. That's a process of not only battle testing jokes, but of finding your voice (finding your voice is more for starting comics.)
You're not going to tell the same jokes repeatedly on a podcast. The medium doesn't suit stand-up. Podcast's are more like improv than stand-up. Stand-up comics are more like solo musical acts where you write your material once and then tour with that same material. That act wouldn't work so well otherwise.
Yes, radio plays the same popular music over and over. Yes, I'll listen to the same song over and over. Movies? Not so much. After watching a movie, rarely do I want to watch it again right away. Somewhat more commonly I'll watch it again after months or years. Most of the time, I don't ever feel the desire to watch that movie. Music can be enjoyed like a movie or it can be background noise. Comedy for me is more like a movie.