Whenever speaking in front of a genuinely large audience, or really any type of audience whatsoever you will find that a certain, often relatively large, amount of your script will elude your capacity for recall altogether. Often the larger the number of people in the audience, the more substantial this cost of anxiety on cognition is. The real reason this is... is because a certain amount, which could perhaps even be quantifiable scientifically, of cognitive energy that, in private, was used for the recollection of jokes stored away in synapses is now being used to suppress your anxieties and prevent overstimulation and the fight or flight response.
There is only one answer for this rather unfortunate fact and that is repeated iteration through your script in one form or another. The more times you rehearse these things in your mind, the more you figuratively burn something into your memory to the point that it becomes as natural and almost mechanist in nature as driving your car. No matter what the conditions. If you recall to the first time you drove a car you'll remember how challenging it was the very first time, but now that you've done it for a number of years it feels almost as natural as breathing (almost).
The less conscious, active energy you have to dump into delivering your script the greater your capacity to excel while telling jokes to even extraordinarily large, and difficult audiences will be. This can only occur after pain-staking, exhausting rehearsal has transpired -- much like those first few joy rides in .
Often delivering presentations of any kind isn't as necessary and fundamental to every day life as driving an automobile is. Most often it's an act of self-actualization. It requires more fierce determination on the part of the presenter, or comedian. A good test for a person's stage preparedness when delivering is whether or not they can maintain and keep eye contact with people in their smaller audience while delivering their jokes.
Try this smaller styled rehearsal with a small crowd (relatively speaking) of friends before standing up in front of a big audience. Do you have a habit of looking away when cracking jokes? If so, then you have probably not rehearsed your jokes enough in private. Find new ways to expand your personal boundaries and run through your presentation and deliveries more rapidly. Chug coffee if you must, find a peaceful, quiet place, and just one more strange suggestion: bring a tape recorder. Make an audio recording of yourself giving the presentation (perhaps read from script), and then try to race your own recording to recall your punchlines faster than you said them even in the audio recording.
There is only one answer for this rather unfortunate fact and that is repeated iteration through your script in one form or another. The more times you rehearse these things in your mind, the more you figuratively burn something into your memory to the point that it becomes as natural and almost mechanist in nature as driving your car. No matter what the conditions. If you recall to the first time you drove a car you'll remember how challenging it was the very first time, but now that you've done it for a number of years it feels almost as natural as breathing (almost).
The less conscious, active energy you have to dump into delivering your script the greater your capacity to excel while telling jokes to even extraordinarily large, and difficult audiences will be. This can only occur after pain-staking, exhausting rehearsal has transpired -- much like those first few joy rides in .
Often delivering presentations of any kind isn't as necessary and fundamental to every day life as driving an automobile is. Most often it's an act of self-actualization. It requires more fierce determination on the part of the presenter, or comedian. A good test for a person's stage preparedness when delivering is whether or not they can maintain and keep eye contact with people in their smaller audience while delivering their jokes.
Try this smaller styled rehearsal with a small crowd (relatively speaking) of friends before standing up in front of a big audience. Do you have a habit of looking away when cracking jokes? If so, then you have probably not rehearsed your jokes enough in private. Find new ways to expand your personal boundaries and run through your presentation and deliveries more rapidly. Chug coffee if you must, find a peaceful, quiet place, and just one more strange suggestion: bring a tape recorder. Make an audio recording of yourself giving the presentation (perhaps read from script), and then try to race your own recording to recall your punchlines faster than you said them even in the audio recording.
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