"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.
Hello there members of the private podcast feed - this is sexy and exciting isn't it?
Here's a thing we're going to try that is provisionally called "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.
Each critique episode will be in two parts:
This is PART A, it'll just be 5 minutes of audio of one person's live comedy set, in this case a member called Mike Sheldon who's kindly volunteered to be a guinea pig and go first!
Then if you have helpful, constructive things to say about it just click on THIS LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yazu5zwz
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 Mike'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.
Do it soon though, because in PART B, I'll replay the audio of his set and then read some curated bits from mine and your feedback. If I'm really clever about it, PART B will probably also contain the PART A of a different act, so that the whole thing dovetails nicely...
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 went on to be massively famous and the topper you suggested to his 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!