I love stand up comedy! It's basically performing comedy before a live audience!
Me too! I was an improv artist in college. Stand-up is a great way to get into improv
Oh cool, so you were a comic or stand-up back then?
I wanted to be, but improv and stand-up is different. Stand-up is almost like being in sales. You try to sell jokes. 
That's true, they are more frequently reciting jokes than improvising them.
Absolutely. But stand-up is a great way to get into acting because you have a script you do in front of an audience
Agreed, though actors don't have to use props or magic tricks or anything like that to "enhance" their acts.
True, but if you are a good stand-up artist, you don't need those either
-jokes.
Stand-up comedy is often performed in corporate events, comedy clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs, neo-burlesques, colleges and theatres (audiences will give applause breaks more often in theaters
). Outside live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD and the internet.
It can take an amateur comedian about 10 years to perfect the technique needed to be a professional comedian; this is a constant process of learning through failure.
As the name
bock to Simmons' very early years; he never really wanted to do anything else. "I wanted to have a comedy group, but it didn't seem right. It didn't seem like it was attainable, for some reason. There's no career path for comedy, is there? You don't go to Slapstick University. Comedy was a real fringe area when I was growing up; stand-up comedy wasn't especially popular then. And improv comedy today is still considered a stepchild to stand-up