Quotes by Franklyn Ajaye

Franklyn Ajaye

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

Routine

Technique

Transition

An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you’re feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you’re interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

Drawing

Goal

People

Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don’t do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

Cutting

Giving

Moving

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don’t feel like it.

Comedian

Feels

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, ‘Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def’?

Black

Father

Home

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won’t see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Alcohol

Beer

People

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it’s a burning desire, you’ll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Burning

Comedian

Desire

Don’t try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

Giving

Trying

Way

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Lesson Learned

Lessons

Stage

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that’s the reason you’re doing television – to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

Advise

Reason

Television

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Advise

Alcohol

Audio

Beer

Black

Body

Bored

Burning

Comedian

Commonplace

Confidence

Creating

Creative

Cutting

Desire

Drawing

Enemy

Experience

Fancy

Father

Feels

Fifty

Focus

Funny

Generations

Ghetto

Giving

Goal

Golf

Good Night

Home

Host

Humor

Important

Laughing

Lesson Learned

Lessons

Lines

Mind

Movement

Moving

Needs

Nuggets

Opportunity

Originality

People

Play

Rap

Real

Reason

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

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The Behaviour Diary

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The Dating Diary

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The Relationship Therapist

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Quotes by Franklyn Ajaye

Franklyn Ajaye

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don’t do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don’t feel like it.

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, ‘Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def’?

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won’t see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it’s a burning desire, you’ll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Don’t try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that’s the reason you’re doing television – to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

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