I violated one of the principles of All Art is Personal™.
Who is your audience, and what content or message is most relevant to them?
Who is your audience, and what is the best way to connect with them?
I heard this wonderful relatively new comedienne that I discovered a couple of months ago. Ariel Elias. She performed last Saturday at the DC Improv.
We took a picture together after the show, posted it on Facebook with the tag, “Ariel Elias killed tonight at the DC Improv.”
If a standup comedian “kills,” it means they were hilarious, and the audience loved them.
I was speaking “comedian” language, and not listener, or audience, language.
A few of my friends posted, “Oh man… I totally misread the context of this post!” Another responded, “The context of the national moment made that a natural error.”
I was pretty naive — perhaps unaware — and should have known better in the times we currently live.
The people who typically see my posts are not comedians (at least not on purpose), and I’m not sure how many of them speak “comedian.”
Having to explain a joke is the “kiss of death” for comics. It means the joke “bombed.”
I’m not a comedian (at least not on purpose), but I had to go back and edit the post.
The next night, I heard another relatively new comedienne, Janine Harouni.
She was really funny, and the audience responded enthusiastically. She “crushed it.”
