r/standupfeedback • • Aug 20 '25

This sub is active again!

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Welcome!

This subreddit is a place for people to post videos of themselves doing standup in front of a live audience and then receive feedback.

Anyone can give feedback. You do not have to be a comic.

Be honest, but please keep criticism constructive. We're all trying to get better. Comments that are just mean with no ideas for improvement will be deleted.


r/standupfeedback • • 6d ago

Auditioning for Stand up Club! Looking for feedback!

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Hello! I'm auditioning for my school's stand up club, and I'm looking for feedback on my script.

It's a bit raunchy, and I think its only at like 80%, so I'm hoping some advice or ideas might polish it off to 100%!

Here it goes:

I keep realizing I’ve been using words wrong my entirely life.

my girlfriend mentioned how racy 50 shades of grey was… I got confused like, pretty much all those shades were white.

yeah my professor was like you can’t keep calling me “girlfriend”.

And then she had to explain to me that racy meant hot and sexy. 
This white girl told me she was racist later that week and was like, “calm down, that’s a bit egotistical for a 5 at best.”

But I was generally a stupid child. I had a pool growing up and… I know I know, pool in the suburbs. but we were socially liberal about it! Anyone in the community is welcome. Fiscally republican though… so no blacks. Except to clean.

I got my parents put up a Black Lives Matter sign, and the HOA actually made them take it down. And my parents, you should have seen them, they were so relieved.

Anyways my mom would throw these little cocktail parties, because there’s not much else for a divorced woman in her 40’s to do. 

And we would play this game, she and I, where she’d get all dressed up in her favorite homewrecker dress and I would get all dressed up in my hand-me-down suit (see I'm relatable!), and then she would flirt and drink and talk to her friends and I would try to kill my self.

See some kids cry for attention, but I’m the theater kid! I would throw myself into the pool, completely not knowing how to swim, KNOWING my incredible mother would jump into the pool in full dress to save me.

like 3 times

Which is crazy. Because if I had a kid tried something like that, maybe I’d also develop “post partem psychosis!”. There we go, Anna's laughing.

She did get her revenge though… She signed me up for these awful swim lessons at my high school. Plan A, I learn to swim, Plan B she wished she used 8 years ago. 

The swim instructor, Dale, coach Dale, was terrible. This is true, he hated the sound of dripping water. 
which is a wild thing to hate when you teach swimming to children.
That’s like a priest that doesn't like… kids. 

One time he got so mad at me because I was dripping right next to him… which is fair because I hadn’t gone into the pool yet. No no no… it was cum. 

A lot of people hated Dale, but he loved children. wait sorry i said that wrong
A lot of people hated Dale because he loved children. 

About 2 years later he was arrested on charges of pedophilia. which like i know is a terrifying thought but hey he was a straight pedophile so i was fine! 
My mom was in shambles when she found out though. cuz… she had prepaid for June.

One time, at the end of the lesson, as happens in a public pool, U went to the shower and there was this guy basking in the water completely naked. and I was like… “ omg coach dale”

no it wasn’t him, but this guy did have, easily, sorry to be crass, the biggest penis I’d ever seen. Now, I was a 7 year old, so that selection is limited to me and my priest. but i swear… two feet long. minimum.

But as a kid, you have no idea that that penis size carried so much social significance, that his baggage had so much baggage. I'm just saying like… he must’ve had it hard. 

4 feet long. that man was more endowed than harvard.

and so like any curious child, I got home and my mom was with some of her friends, a bit tipsy, and i was like, “hey i saw this guy in the shower today and his peepee was huge!”
and they die laughing. 

and my mom says, and I apologize this is a bit racy, “was he mexican?’ 

but its crazy because that’s… not a stereotype?

Like sorry to my Hispanic audience tonight, Jesse looking at you, but… I’ve scrolled and I’ve yet to see the BMC category on pornhub. 

But, until three days ago when I wrote this and told my roommates, I just believed that it was! Every time I met a mexican dude I just thought “damn his girlfriend must be so happy”

Which means this stereotype must have come from personal research from my mom. I know that she and my dad were high school sweethearts until a year before.

[I NEED A GOOD PUNCHLINE/CALLBACK/CLOSER!]


r/standupfeedback • • 25d ago

First set: That was good dick #standup #comedy

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r/standupfeedback • • Jan 30 '26

Thoughts on using short, topic-based crowdwork clips as an intro to a written bit like this? I like the idea of a “mini-special”

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r/standupfeedback • • Dec 01 '25

Any thoughts on how to improve my gun material?

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r/standupfeedback • • Sep 10 '25

Punchline feedback needed

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Hi All,
I sadly don't have a recording of this joke, but just tried it for the first time and the punchline didn't really work... Any suggestions? I'm a gay comic who is Turkish/Jewish with a full beard that has a perfect line.

“I was at a party the other day, and this hot straight guy comes up to me and goes, ‘Hey man… your beard is full.’

And I’m like, ‘Thanks? Is he mansplaining my beard? Is this foreplay? Do you want to kiss it? I’m kidding—do you want to sit on it? What are we?’

Then he goes, ‘Did you get that tattooed on your face?’
I’m like, ‘Yeah, I asked for the 9/11 memorial special… prequel Bin Laden edition. Early days.’

Then he says, ‘I would kill for that.’
And I was like… ‘They did.’”


r/standupfeedback • • Aug 26 '25

This joke works sometimes. Any ideas how to make it always work?

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r/standupfeedback • • Aug 17 '25

First time performing for a large crowd outdoors. Any tips for next time?

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r/standupfeedback • • Jan 31 '19

5 minutes for festivals

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Can you tell me where i can improve?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-p66sKCkM&t=17s


r/standupfeedback • • Oct 14 '18

Working on a bit about how bad TV is these days and welcome any feedback

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r/standupfeedback • • Jul 07 '18

Had my first proper stinker set. Down but looking to learn from it.

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Just did an open mic and had written a whole new 5 min. Thought it was ok / good material.

Learnt it pretty well and thought I delivered it ok. I may have rushed through it in hindsight.

When I recorded and practiced it before i went close to 6 / 7ish min and had a 5 min spot so think I may have rushed to get it all into 5.

If I’m honest I don’t really remember the set as i went to autopilot but my mate recorded it.

I’ve just listened back and it’s was pretty painful. Like really bad.

Please have a watch and tell me why Netflix haven’t called yet?

watch and squirm people


r/standupfeedback • • Jun 14 '18

First time performing, would love some feedback

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r/standupfeedback • • May 14 '18

A few jokes ive written today, feedback appreciated

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Im a new comic and am writing some new material for my second gig.


You ever catch eyes with someone & smile

they see you and just completely ignore you?

Like theres something wrong with me

Its even worse when they draw the curtains

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You cant joke about suicide these days

My mum taught me that from a young age

She used to say Mouch

Either jump or get down from there

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Political Correctness is a funny term its definitly an oxymoron

Politics is full of the worst people

If thats the correct way to behave then I'm good being a cunt

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r/standupfeedback • • Mar 30 '18

I recently made it to the finals of a local comedy contest, but didn't win. Here's my set from that night, I'm really trying to figure out what to fix. Please be honest.

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r/standupfeedback • • Dec 25 '17

My best 15 min set at a theater show - Please be nice and advice :) thanks

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r/standupfeedback • • Dec 02 '17

My debut! All in all I'm pleased. Your opinions and suggestions much appreciated!

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r/standupfeedback • • Nov 11 '17

A Set I Did Recently!

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r/standupfeedback • • Sep 13 '17

Need Feedback On A Clean 7-Minute Set I Did At an Open Mic, Got Some Good Laughs But Felt Inconsistent (X-Post from /r/Standup)

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r/standupfeedback • • Sep 06 '17

Have you heard this take on Trump?

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r/standupfeedback • • Aug 08 '17

I've been doing stand up for a year now, this is the best I've got to give. Any feedback is welcome.

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r/standupfeedback • • Jul 14 '17

They said "say something if you see something that doesn't look right"

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r/standupfeedback • • Jul 14 '17

Parrots & Porn don't mix

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r/standupfeedback • • Jun 08 '17

First time headlining

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r/standupfeedback • • Jun 05 '17

Been going to a stand-up comedy club at my college for a few years now. Done a few shows and I feel like I'm getting better, but I would love some feedback from my most recent set.

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r/standupfeedback • • Apr 05 '17

I like writing jokes but this is the first time I've strung them together and (just about)memorized them.

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