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Wk 27 Recap: Beacons for Standups

Com Accel Wk x27: -- Beacons for Standups (Feb 15, 2026) in the Career section, we talked about using “Beacons” in standup -- huge bright lights you place on top of Entertainment Mountain, that you always see and which keep you working in organized ways toward exact goals; there are many options for these, including: (1) local beacons -- getting on Austin stages, trying out new material, having fun, getting high or drunk (highly popular beacons worldwide); some people have (2) personal beacons -- overcoming stage fright, getting on stage the first time, developing as an artist, taking a “journey,” doing something amazing to them, etc; the strongest beacons I suggest are (3) quality beacons -- making sure everything is at pro-level -- that it’s insanely high quality, like it’s been produced by a great Hollywood team, so that it breaks open opportunity for you when you perform it; and (4) money-worth comedy -- comedy that has a market, has fans, fits venues, and has the potential to make real/big money, and keep on making real/bit money (meaning enough money to change the lives of pretty much everyone involved in the project); I encourage all standups to think about chasing money in comedy; it doesn’t matter if that means being paid to do standup, or as a producer, an actor, a host, a writer, a headwriter, a director, a commercial actor, etc; you should work to find every entertainment asset you have that is payment worthy; you should make every asset better and better until you can beat out everyone else who is competing for jobs in that specialty; these days you can’t just wait to become a great standup and then get paid, you have to make money with every asset you have and when you find opportunities that can make real money for you fast -- esp special opportunities like Kill Tony -- treat them like gold. we had two workshoppers get on Kill Tony last week (Greg and Lorenzo). I saw real pathways in what Greg did during his appearance to create instant money for himself, and also grab a super valuable form of instant fame; he found a way to be different than all the other standups, to stand out via a story he told about himself. a lane all his own. almost everyone in standup seems to go for is “if I’m funny, people will see it, like me, I’ll get booked, and I’ll have a standup career”; well, yes, and no. first of all, the lane of people who want to move up by just trying to be funny is incredibly crowded/clogged; there are, I don’t know, 30k people trying to make a living at standup? 100k? do you really feel like you’re significantly funnier than all other comics working the “funny standup” pathway? I’m sorry, but you aren’t. most standups sound like all other standups. they’re not unique enough to break out of that massive pile of comics. maybe you can get to where you’re SUPER funny some day, but almost everyone needs more than just being funny to really succeed. you just aren’t going to beat out the tens of thousands of other standups unless you have extra gears. so keep looking for when doors open that let you take a different path alongside your standup path. you can still dev as a standup, there’s no reason to ever put your dream of being a great standup away; but you need to make money, and you make money by being different than everyone else. in the Upgradery hour; I reminded everyone that we treat this segment of the workshop like a professional opportunity -- y’all go on stage, do a minute, and I function as a pro headwriter, director, producer, who wants to hire standups. I’m looking for people who are crushing on all the four major elements of standup: () Script quality -- do you have punchlines, tags, act outs. are your jokes surprising, even to a pro writer? have you removed all dead words, lines, confusion, etc? have you amped up every single place in the script where you can create laughs? () Performance quality -- is your core delivery great, are your act outs great? are you using voice, face, body, hands, costuming, emotions, in high level, creative, funny ways, etc? () Character quality -- are you personally quirky, unusual, magnetic, memorable, delightful, funny, charming, engaging, likable, etc? () Communication quality -- do you connect instantly, deeply? do you speak conversationally? are you truly present in this moment? do you grip minds, keep people cognitively present, fully engaged? are you co-emoting with people? when the workshop gets really clicking, everyone should be bringing in bits every week that are fully cooked on all four areas; and then we upgrade them even more by taking them through group work; do this process enough -- bring in bits you’ve cooked, then sweeten them with pro/team upgrading next week we’re starting the Standup Showcase at the Shiner Saloon! stay tuned to the FB group as we organize the show and the signup system for comics. fun times ahead.