How To Become a Comedian : Performance Length for Beginning Comedians

[mwhite0071]

Look at a stand-up comedian's routine and count the jokes and bits during 10 minutes. This includes audience laughter.

Steven Wright - 30 jokes in 10 min

Ron White - 15 jokes in 10 min

Find a comedian with your pace - and then you can know how much material.

[HEIGHTSIXFIVE]

Alright, what do you consider a page? One or both sides of a piece of paper?

[StephenL3]

Theres no way 3 pages is five minutes, just type something up and read it, one page is easily 5 minutes

[e1kie]

@StephenL3 your just slow. I was gonna say more pages is 5 minutes. dumbass

[GazaStew]

last 6-7 vids mention the MC? what is the MC exactly?

[ToadstooI]

The person running the show. Usually the person who says "Coming to the stage....GazaStew!" and also says a few jokes in between each person, and signals you when your time is almost up so you know when to get off. Hopefully this helped you.

[disciple522]

Thanks man.