Finding The Funny - Ryan Pilling (2024 Magician Edition)

A Magician's Guide to Ad-libs, Improvisation, and Audience Interaction. Learn the techniques to creating inspired moments of comedy, and engaging your audience with the spark of spontaneity. Including four stand-up magic routines, forged in the fires of improvisation, to turn a passive crowd into active participants. Contents Part One: Performing with Presence Choose To Improvise - How improvisation benefits your performance. Nuts & Bolts of Improvisation - The three-step recipe for making it up. Real World Improvisation - A look at how improvisation and ad-libs happen in real life performances. Improvising Your Way Out of Problems - Being flexible, attentive, and quick on your feet to dodge trouble. Writing Through Improvisation - Boost your creativity while planning and preparing your act. Practicing Improvisation - How to develop your mental muscles for quick thinking. How To Begin Improvising - Prepare to be unprepared. Working With Audience Members - The chapter I a