Hello everybody. My name is Anderson Haran and I am a standup comedian. I'm very funny. Okay. Anyways, if you have any questions related to stand up comedy or how to be on stage page or what to do if 11111 one laughs at your jokes, what? If you have any questions related to those, drop me a reply. I'll be happy to answer all your questions. Have a great day. Bye
Gaurav Chauhan
@Gaurav1106 · 0:51
But I've seen quite a lot of startup comedians and I used to do a little bit of work where I've traveled with a couple of them. And I understand the challenge at times. And I'm sure I was watching a little bit of your content just right now. It's amazing. You're really funny. And do let us know your favorite comedians and what happens when someone does not laugh
And when you do, it doesn't come or it doesn't sound as funny as you thought it would be. So have you ever had such kind of experience and what do you do to manage those areas
Hi, Anderson. Welcome to Swell. I hope you try out some of your material on us before you do go on stage. My question for you is, do you tend to include your personal life into your stand up routine, or do you just tend to stay away from it
Hey, Anderson, this is super cool. Ramya. Thanks for doing this and putting yourself out there to take on all our questions. As you say, being a standup comedian is no easy feat. You can do the same exact routine to do different crowds and get completely different reactions. So how do you kind of read the room? How do you work your audience? Is there any anything think that you can share about that with us? I would really love to know
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 0:12
Hi, Anderson. I was wondering how you go about writing your jokes? What is the process and what do you think about before you actually sit down to write? How do you really structure it
Manohar Gaunekar
@Man33 · 0:33
Hey, Anderson, thanks for the super cool AMA. My question to you is do you sometimes as a stand up comedian feel that a joke is very funny and when you perform it in a club or somewhere in a crowd, it does not get that much response or that many laughs? So what do you do about those jokes? Do you restructure them or do not involve them in your bid
Anshi Sharma
@xoxo_2004 · 0:20
Hey and Mr. Great to have you on. Swell. I had a question that have you ever experienced stage fright or maybe during the time when you had just started, did you ever experience on stage right and thought like it had affected your performance and how did you overcome it
Tanojeet Saha
@Tanojeet · 0:08
So hey so, please tell me who is your favorite comedian? Which will I want to know
Krishna Telang
@Krishnaroxs · 0:14
Hey, Krishna. This side, first of all, thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to ask this question. My question is how can we start a career or how should we pursue a career professionally in stand up comedy
Hey, Anderson, welcome to Swell. So my question is that what's that wondering goal in your career as a stand up comedian, would you want to achieve? I'm really curious to know the answer
Rahul Kumar
@Wakeuprahul · 0:15
Hey Anderson. Firstly, welcome on the hello and yes. And so my question is like, what I feel is, I feel the on this footprinted jokes make more sense than the scripted ones. What are your views on this? Please to share
Urshita Aggarwal
@urshita2072 · 0:26
Hello, Anderson. So I have two questions for you. First, that you make us all laugh, but what is the one joke or one set which made you laugh the most? And the second, that were you always comfortable on stage or it is something that you have developed over time and how you develop it
Khushi Garg
@Khushii · 0:33
Hey, Anderson, I just checked out your work and it's amazing. I can really relate to the part where you talked about the stomach thing we get before in the presentation. That has happened to me a lot of times. So my question is, how do do you deal with that? Do you get stage fear or performance anxiety before any performance of yours? And if yes, how do you deal with it?
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 0:38
First of all, thank you so much for checking my videos. Yes, I get that a lot. And the only way to fix that is face it scared. Just do it. You have to do it somehow. And the first thing thing I do is I go to the stage and that's I think one of the benefits of being a standard committee. And you can be very honest. And I just directly say I'm getting a pool balance right now
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:03
Okay. And the second question is no. Until I finished my A levels, I was never like a stage person. I just went to open mics every week. At least once a week, I go for open mics and then maybe try to express myself, maybe try to sing. I just tried one or two jokes each week. And then slowly I started building up my comedic skills around. So it's a very slow progress
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:12
It can be at a wedding house. What's the worst scenario you went through at a wedding house? And it's obvious they tell something. And then I try to put some of my elements in it and try to act it out and it becomes alive when I Act it out. And also, I do jokes without hurting anyone's feelings. I think that's very important. You have to be likable. So I do that a lot
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:20
We all say that actually, there are very Garg numbers of people who take their failures as a learning, and only if you take your failures easy, just at least if you can joke about it and then feel comfortable, you can go forward and you can learn something out of it. So that's my all purpose. I want comedy to be a place for people to express someone's failures and just feel okay about it. And my biggest goal is I'm already working on it
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:23
Thank you, Krishna, for that question. Well, I believe that you can start a career around anything that you love. At least you can start your own hustle and stand up an entertainment business. But also I consider that as a mental health related related thing. Just imagine if you're working as a software engineering company, there's a lot of stressful things that you go through. And just imagine one person comes out honestly, talks about all of this problematic situation in a fun way
KUSHAGRA DUA
@duakushagra03 · 0:20
So I have one question about the standup comedy that after the two or three jokes, every person who is hearing about our jokes cannot be much interactive or they must not be hearing about that. So I just want to ask how we can make our most more jokes with more jokes attractive or hearable from the audience
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:35
Like, we should keep shooting the jokes right one after another and at least one would be working. But the main thing that we should remember is more than the words. Your body language can make someone laugh. For example, Mr. Vin, he doesn't speak even a single word, but his expressions and actions are always funny. So if there's a moment of where no one is laughing, I would really just try to go for a body language related jokes
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:36
I think it's all about having that proper build up and the surprise. So we always have to focus on that build up and a pause and that final joke, the punchline, it usually works because when you give that pause, people start to think they start to live in that moment and then it works all the time. So I would suggest go for that pause and the build up and then give that surprise and it's okay if people are not laughing
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:31
Hi Anshi, thank you for that warm welcome. I mean, 90% of my content are real life. Like that has happened to me somehow, somewhere, and I just kind of exaggerated. Usually it's like the normal thing that happens in your life are actually funny. You got into a wrong Uber, it's a funny thing
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:29
If they say, oh, my work is stressful, I'm like, my work is not that stressful. I'm just trying to quit for no reason. I just tried to say something with a weird expression, and then people always connect there. So I think it's super important to connect with people by asking questions. So interaction is a very important element of stand up comedy. At the beginning of every show, I ask a lot of questions and just interact, interact, interact, interact
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:07
I just make the right expressions and the second technique is of course I write them down but I always try to stick with a storyline like start beginning of it and some problematic situations, blah blah, blah blah and the biggest surprise and end. So I will always have the time sequence so I don't go with ten different jokes. I try to stick with one story which has multiple jokes. So that's how I write it down
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:58
Like, when they do all of those stuff, it kind of motivates me. The moment they laugh, it kind of motivates me. So that's how I kept going. And I started to realize with time that I got better and better, and at the same time, my sense of humor kept increasing. Without much rehearsal, I was able to do Joe. That's what. So I just realized that I'm good at it
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:04
So I just try to somehow, even if it does not work, I still just keep it genuine and then I tell them how I felt like I just make a joke out of that when people don't laugh as well. So it always works somehow. And of course I keep on changing the style. If it doesn't work this time, I'm pretty sure I'm going to change that a little bit and then try it in a different way
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:05
Yes. Stage fear is something that's common. You cannot ignore it. If it's your first time, you are going to get it. If it's your 6th time, you will still get it. If it's your 100th time, you will still get it. But less than before. So my advice to you on that is just keep it genuine and keep it honest. If you're feeling nervous, just say, hey guys, I'm feeling nervous
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 0:15
My number one favorite standup comedian is Kenny Sebastian, and there are more people like Kevin Hart, Kevin OVA and all that. All of them. But Kenny Sebastian is my favorite stand up comedian
Ritika Dhawan
@ritika_dhawan_ · 0:11
Yeah, you're right. Whenever we used to give a joke to anyone and they do not laugh. So it feels really, really bad
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 0:42
But if it's one whole story and if it has multiple funny parts in it, people will enjoy somehow because it's not deviating from the main topic. It goes on the timeline
Hey, Anderson. So my joke would be like, we have heard from many other stand ups that they try to do a set for maybe three or four shows or maybe the duration of time of a year where they perform the same set at different venues. So what do you think is the limit of that set to just go through with it maybe six months or maybe the time till the person or the audience lasted that sets, including jokes. And the other question would be that when do you stop?
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 1:13
I don't like to repeat my joke, but sometimes I do, but I kind of update the jokes and maybe the actions something will be different all the time. I might update the body language of it or I might do some extra acting in it. So there is no such thing as a joke expires because there will always be people who never came across that joke
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Prashant Kumar
@smileypkt · 0:22
I want to ask you a simple question. That how we man use a sense of humor, of a stand up comedian in our day to day life. To make ourselves happy. To be happy from within
Anderson Haran
@andersonharan · 0:39
If you want to connect with people instantly, like very quickly. I prefer comedy. I recommend comedy as the first thing people connect with you faster when they find that you are funny because you made them laugh. And the moment you make them feel happy, that's when you feel happy. So that's how comedy is helpful. So you make a joke. You make someone laugh. The thought of you made someone laugh is going to help you feel better