Shtick

Question 1

Personality of performer - has to be authentic - elevator version - easy for audience to understand (30 seconds)

Question 2

Persona and Shtick are same thing - perhaps persona is easier term to understand

Question 3

Professionals have narrow shticks

Answer 3

Howard - experienced comics narrow their persona - narrow but also deep - inexperienced comics tend toward wide personas (too scattered) - who is this guy? The audience wants to know

Question 4

Don’t over-think - being yourself is your persona