ZPowers
New member
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2010
- Messages
- 1,488
- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w4
Standup is a lot more like public speaking than acting. Even theater is a lot less interactive.
Yes and no. The performance itself is more interactive by nature, but acting is all about that presentation, the job is almost 100% about that communication with audience (and, when not, working with the director or cast around you). The comedian spends many more hours locked up alone writing material or meticulously finding the right cadence and manner to preform it (sometimes alone, sometimes experimenting with a crowd) than he actually does on stage. The time it takes to eventually build up to the performance is much more extensive than the time actually on stage. Unlike a band or an actor, for a comedian that rehearsal is him/her alone. Actor, director, writer all in one, except when he uses an audience as a random club as guinea pigs for new material before trying it in larger, more public sphere. You mentioned comedy writers as maybe more introverted, but all comedians are both performers AND writers, making it a bit more of a crap shoot than if they were strictly one or the other IMO.
EDIT: Of course, the process differs between comedians. But I know many wall themselves away from everyone else for hours a day to work on comedy, compared to hour-long shows on only some nights.