"Comedy Critique" is a plan to enable subscribing members of the podcast who are comedians to show their act to other members, and get some useful and constructive feedback. Full description in show notes.
Welcome to the first complete episode of "Comedy Critique"
There are lots of members who are newer comedians, and what I'm trying to do is create a space where interested parties can hear or see their work and give them feedback.
In this completed episode (after last week's trailer) we hear a set from Mike Sheldon, and then I give him some feedback and read from feedback other members have weighed in on.
THEN we hear a set from Neil Harris, and then if you have helpful, constructive things to say about it just click on THIS LINK: https://tinyurl.com/y7foku2y
It'll direct you to join something called the "Comcompod workspace" (on a little forum app called "Slack" if you're interested). You navigate to the channel called "#ComedyCritique" and there you can join in the conversation about Neil's work.
You need to click the "Channels" heading on the left (the heading itself, not the + next to it) to browse the other available channels, and select #ComedyCritique. Then in the next episode we'll hear Neil's set again with all of our feedback attached, and another new set from the next comic!
If you're a newer act and you'd like to be considered for this sort of thing, then just say so in the workspace and I'll add you to the list.
What I'm going for is a sort of useful and interesting thing whereby a newer act gets some constructive criticism from people who really love comedy, as well as having their work heard by a few more people, and you all get to be a bit more involved in a comic's creative development. Wouldn't it be awesome if a few years from now Mike or Neil went on to be massively famous and the topper you suggested to their opening gag appeared on Live at the Apollo?
So I hope you enjoy this little experiment with me giving something back to you for your support of the podcast. Thanks for being a member!