The Comedy Hole: English Standup in Europe

Crowd Work Tutorial with Andrzej Sosnowski

Feb 10, 2023 · 2 hr 16 min · Season 1 · Episode 15 · 197.2 MBExplicit
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Ciao! Take off your shirts and get ready to shout "Where ya from?!" at the unsuspecting Polish children in the front row. Comedy virtuoso Andrzej "Andy" Sosnowski (@comedyandy) joins Jordan (@jordanthomasgray) and Ariel (@arielbialski) to discuss the art, science, and spectacle of CROWD WORK in standup.

Here are some topics the gang covers:

  • How to take your first steps into crowd work and audience interaction
  • How to ask interesting crowd work questions
  • How to deal with the rare and dangerous "poison pill" - an audience member who wants to ruin the show
  • What kind of crowd work to do if you're bombing
  • Crowd work while hosting an open mic
  • How to tell a story using crowd work over the course of a show
  • Mind Maps and Logic Trees vs JUST LISTENING
  • Asking "Why" questions instead of "What" questions
  • Are "hack" crowd work questions ok?
  • Where ya from?

Beatrice (@beatricerossano) has finished her Europe tour with Jimmy Pepperoni and will be back soon!

Find out more about Andy Sosnowski here:
https://linktr.ee/comedyandy

Jordan is touring all over Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands in the next 60 days. Get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/jordanthomasgray

The Comedy Hole (@thecomedyhole) is run by Beatrice Rossano (@beatricerossano), Jordan Thomas Gray (@jordanthomasgray), and Ariel Bialski (@arielbialski) - three standup comedians and comedy show hosts based in Warsaw, Poland.