All language subtitles for Masterclass Steve Martin Teaches Comedy - 24. Final Thoughts

I think when this class is done,

depending on your personal interest,

whether it's a let's say you're

interested in comedy or performing

standup comedy and maybe you've made a

couple of notes and maybe you've been

inspired, I'd say phone a friend,

uh, someone with the same interest and

go over what you're talking about, what

Maybe you've picked up. I won't call it

learning because the learning is going

to take place on stage and in practice,

but pitch those ideas around. I love the

idea of of collaborative

schmoozing uh with people with similar

interests and similar uh willingness to

explore things at a little bit of a

deeper level. little because that

inspires you when you get when you get a

manifesto and you get a premise to work

on and to apply to yourself. It's fun.

Find the smallest place where you can

go. Maybe it's a you know cub scout

meeting. Maybe uh it's a it's something

where there's a festival going on. Find

a little place to get up, talk to

people. Always make it very small at

first. Very small. uh where uh the loss

won't be so taken so hard because it is

going to be tough. I always picture

someone

in a club at the lowest eb of their

career kind of fighting against

depression and uh the the response that

isn't there and the people talking and

the crash glasses and I I always have a

such a deep respect for comedians. I I

feel like I have an empathy with you

with them and I feel like I could walk

up and go I know and they go yeah

there's many people who have gone before

and go are going through exactly what

you did. So you have allies you have

allies while you're on stage who have

experienced the very thing you're doing

and have survived. I close the first

chapter of my book, my autobio

biography,

and just just with this thought, uh, how

difficult it is doing standup comedy

because being alone on stage is the

ego's last stand,

and that's what you're taking on.

No one is more vulnerable than a a

stand-up comedian standing alone.

The one thing I'd like you to walk away

with as a student is that it can be

done. That

one, what whatever your level of talent

is, it can be overcome. And overcoming a

lack of talent often makes you unique.

You're filling in

what instead of conventional singing,

you're going to sing in a different way.

Uh instead of conventional dancing,

you're going to dance your own way. uh

in fact conventional is not so good and

that there will be room for you. Uh

the stage is always changing. It's

always in flux. People come in, people

go out, they're famous, they're not

famous, they move on. And you can be

waiting in the wings there if you

prepare yourself artistically, talented,

uh, talent-wise, and be in the right

place at the right time, which you can

manipulate.

I've really enjoyed doing this master

class with you. I've hope you've gotten

something out of it, uh, whether it's

something you can use or something that

will inspire you. And I hope that one

day, if you have great success, you'll

pass it along to someone else. Bye.

Okay, buddy. Here we go.