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
, routine, or set. Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks
Overview.
Some of the main types of humor in stand-up comedy include observational comedy, blue comedy, dark comedy, clean comedy, and cringe comedy.
Alternative stand-up comedy deviates from the traditional, mainstream comedy by breaking either joke structure, performing in an untraditional scene, or breaking an audience's expectations; this includes, but is not limited to, the use of shaggy dog stories and anti
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