Far Too Funny List
Happy New Year! We're back this Monday!
Hello!
Happy New Year! Broken your New Year’s Resolution already?
Perhaps you plan to take up Stand-Up Comedy or do more gigs?
Well, in next week’s newsletter you can apply to perform at Too Far Comedy in February.
Too Far Comedy will be back at the Artillery Arms in Old Street, London, this Monday! We’ve got a sensational line-up for you to kick-start the year.
Come and join us, doors open at 7.15pm. Free entry!
This week, I’m concluding your favourite content of the year in the Funny List. It’s the best written pieces. Enjoy!
😂 Far Too Funny List
📕 Reading - Chortle has an old article called How to beat the gong. Have you done a gong show? Do you agree with these tips? Let me know in the comments section.
📕 Reading - While I was away in Orlando earlier this year, I was looking for articles to help me write jokes. I found Generating Ideas for Stand-up Comedy from the Hard Knock Knocks Comedy School really helpful.
📕 Reading - I’ve previously called Adam Bloom’s Finding Your Comic Genius the best book I’ve read on stand-up comedy. This week I finished Jesse David Fox’s Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work and it is also up there, albeit for different reasons. While Bloom’s book focuses more on structure, Fox’s book uses examples of comedy in recent history to contextualise the different facets of performing. He covers topics such as timing, the audience, and the line. As Vulture’s comedy critic, Fox is well-placed having watched and interviewed a lot of comedians, often breaking down their best jokes into infinitesimal detail. There’s a lot of information that has me analysing how I now approach the stage.
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🎤 Where you can see me perform
Too Far Comedy - Monday 6, 13, 27 November | 7.15pm doors
Rise Up Comedy - Tuesday 28 January | 7pm doors
If you want to book me for one of your comedy nights please email me.
That’s it for now. Hope to see you soon!
Richard
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“Far Too Funny List” is a collation of content that Richard Parr finds hilarious or valuable as a comedian. Richard is the MC of Too Far Comedy. It’s a new act, new material night at The Artillery Arms in Old Street, London starting at 7.30pm. This weekly newsletter also gives acts priority access to spots to perform when they become available.