When it comes to stand up comedy writing, the more honest and vulnerable you are on your comedy shows, the more the audience will connect with you. Letting what you know and feel take control of your stand-up comedy writing will open up many more avenues for finding your jokes.

Using personal experience in writing and improvising your stand-up comedy through the narrator and your own opinions will help you discover your true opinions. He sometimes even discovers that he has more opinions on the subject than he originally thought. This will happen because you can say what you are trying to feel without having to bear the consequences. Use the comedian in you to say all those things that you have been thinking, but holding back.

You will find that using other characters’ points of view when writing stand up comedy will allow you to say and do things you would never dream of doing or saying in public. When the audience finds it offensive, you can blame the other character’s point of view. In most cases, using the right strategy, comedians can get away with it.

Once you’ve created your other characters in your stand-up comedy writing, you can use them to say and do things that might get you in trouble with certain audiences if you did or said them yourself. However, your character is someone who will most likely say or do those things without thinking about the consequences. By using this point of view to write stand-up comedy, you’ll often uncover the opinions that others spend their lives hiding. As a comedian, it is your duty to express these opinions through your frame of jokes.

Overlapping Viewpoints

The point of view concept of stand-up comedy writing is simple in itself, but there are multiple variations that can be layered into a complex routine. Sometimes when writing a stand up comedy, you might want to tell a joke as yourself with the narrator leaving snarky comments, or you might want to be another character with a narrator explaining the situation. Another version of stand up comedy writing is that you can be a character who becomes another character within the joke. There are many combinations using all three points of view, using only two or using all three. The more you experiment, the more you will discover.

Wear it while you practice

When you talk about your real life experience writing stand up comedy, audiences will tend to find you the funniest. So when you practice a joke as an experience, you will practice using you as yourself, you as the narrator, and you as other characters’ points of view. Using these three points of view during the practice method will create a very vivid memory of the experience rather than just memorizing your joke. In the next chapter you will go into more depth on how to use the different points of view while practicing and perfecting your routine.

Style is not an issue when it comes to point of view in stand up comedy writing because you can always find one that fits your style. The more you use them, the more you’ll notice how they apply to your routine by helping you with staging, acquiring new material, using the present tense, impersonating other characters, sharing your thoughts, practicing, and presenting. Knowing the points of view and how to use them expands your possibilities as a comedian and adds fun to your routine.