At one time the notion of a career on stage may have been frowned upon, but nowadays parents would be well advised to actually push their offspring into the safe and lucrative world of comedy. If the number of awards, the profusion of clubs and the amount of lucrative broadcasting work available, are anything to go by, comedy is the new accountancy. Comedians can now work in several media and even be paid a regular salary for writing jokes for TV and media. The live comedy circuit has mushroomed and the general public seem to have an insatiable appetite for comedic talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Despite the risk of obscurity, the openings for talented funny people are many and varied- and it's not necessarily performers that TV wants to lure. TV pro
ducers would want to see someone up there performing live, and audience reaction was the bottom line. What we have today is a concern with the comic's creative potential. They may think someone doesn't have it quite on stage, but has a talent that could be put to better use coming up with ideas for sketches in established TV shows or even for editing scripts.
While many welcome the extra money and audience interest that awards attract, others believe they are hardly an automatic guarantee of well-paid comedy life, but rather they act as an industry 'shop window'. The awards do secure work for newcomers and a lot of them feel they have to pay their dues and do live performance for a couple of years before they can call themselves a comedian. It certainly helps in terms of knowing whether a joke is 'sayable' or is the timing's right when they go into writing or production.
Therefore, even if one needs talent and a lot of work in order to improve his abilities in this domain, he or she should take into consideration that a career in comedy also represents a good opportunity to gain some money. And, to be sincere, it's a job which offers joy, especially if one enjoys what he or she does.
A career in comedy? It's no laughing matter! written by Cristina Nuta for FamousWhy.com
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