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Nico Carney Can’t Force It
“I found it a lot more fun and true when I started talking about my life onstage.”
So I showed up to golf camp with a full face of clown makeup and played three holes under the hot July sun as “Oreo the Magnificent.” When I first started, I thought I could sit at my desk and write jokes from a blank page, and every once in a while that leads to something interesting or funny, but 99 percent of my material comes to me premise/punch line first, then I’ll punch it up and expand on it as I get it up onstage and see if it’s worth doing. I think a lot of young comics see it as a quick way to go viral online, but starting out, it’s so much more important to find your material and your voice than it is to learn how to do crowd work.
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