I was going to write a response to the question, “Can you go to too many open mics?” but the answer was obviously “no” followed by some other obvious tips like, “Don’t be that comic who gets drunk, annoying, and wastes precious stage time of yourself or others.” Chad Wallace summed it up in the St. Louis comics thread by saying, “Bring your A game.”
So just a quick tip. Since Facebook is pretty much the main way most new comics try to promote themselves by getting their name and face out there…keep your profile picture as yourself. It doesn’t need to be a headshot, but if you’re connected to hundreds of comics on Facebook, they’d like to be able to recognize you when you talk to them after a show. Perhaps you MC for them once. They’ll remember your face if they see it every so often on Facebook. If they don’t see your face, you’re more than likely to be forgotten. It doesn’t even have to be just you in the picture. The mistake comics make is trying to post something funny as a picture. That’s kind of like trying to do jokes during the show’s announcements. It doesn’t need to be funny, nor does it work very often.
I’m not saying I’m one of those comics who is important to know, but there have been numerous times where I pretended to know who you were and then had to ask someone after you walked away or just didn’t care. Turns out we’re pretty much all bad with names. Facebook has been a lifesaver many times. However, if I’ve never seen your actual face on it, it will take me a lot longer to know who you are. (The same with important people.)
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