Thursday, May 16, 2013

Anna's Stand-up Debut

Last night we were lucky enough to a part of Anna's very special night.  She has been attending a stand-up comedy class for the past 6 weeks and tonight was the comedy classes graduation show, tonight was Anna's Stand-up Comedy Debut.  The show was held at The Comedy Works Comedy Club in Albany.  There were a total of 12 amateur comedians performing who also took the class.  We also had a group of 12 people, but we were all there to show our love and support for Anna!  The show started out great, the performers were funny and there were many jokes that had the crowd roaring.  It was a packed house for the Graduates and the crowd came ready to laugh, and boy did we laugh!

About a year and a half ago Anna decided she wanted to get into acting.  She had never acted before or done anything like it.  Since then she has been a part of three different independent films and she's currently in the process of continuing her acting career; however, this was the first time she wasn't reading from a script in front of a camera.  This time it was just her, her humor, her jokes, a microphone, lights, and a full live audience 2 feet in front of her... And boy did she did a FANTASTIC job!


I had been talking with her for weeks, days, hours, and even minutes before it was her time to take the stage.  It's expected that anyone taking the stage in any form for the first time in front of an audience would be nerve racking, especially when a dozen of those audience members consist of family members and close friends sitting less than 5 feet in front of you. 

Here are some of her own original jokes:

"Just to give you some background information on me, when I was in high school I struggled with bulimia.  Well, not exactly, I just had a really sensitive gag reflex..."

"Actually in college I started to gain weight.  You know, the freshman 15 and so forth.  But strangely enough it was only in my uterus.  After falling down drunk one night down the stairs I was back to a size six again, Thank you Svedka."

"As a single female, I feel we're given a hard rap for expecting too much from our boyfriends/men.  It's like I really don't ask for much in a relationship - really I'm just looking for those three magic words - seven figure salary."

As soon as she was introduced and the applause for her quieted, she looked and sounded like she had been doing this for years.  She made eye contact with everyone in the room, her presentation of jokes just flowed and she used pauses, smiles, and little one liners perfectly to keep everyone involved, interested, and especially laughing.

You can watch her entire routine below!! Or click here!!  Way to go Anna you killed it!!

No comments:

Post a Comment