Forty years ago, the Emcee of a comedy show would likely have been the most experienced comedian, who didn’t need any help capturing an audience.
Today’s model, however, has a newer comic playing that role.
So being skilled at warming up a cold crowd is an important skill for a new comic.
Mike walks us through some tactics on how to get an audience’s attention before springing jokes on them.
The best advice might be to think of warming up a crowd like foreplay.
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