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The Stand Up Comedy Club is a group dedicated to offering opportunities for students to perform original stand up comedy routines in front of live audiences. The group is composed of students of varying experience levels who work together to write, edit, and perform original stand up comedy routines. Occasionally the club might host a traveling comedian who can share advice with members and grow the network of comedians around the country. Regularly, club members can be seen at local bars, comedy clubs, theaters, and campus events. To book the Stand Up Comedy Club for a show, where we typically do showcase style shows where a group of comedians does about 10 minutes or less each, please contact a club officer from our directory or email the club in general at: isusucc@gmail.com

Events

News & Announcements

August 28, 2024

Welcome Back SUCCers!!

*You hear Western standoff whistling playing in the background as I approach you in an old town saloon, my spurs jingling with every step*

 

"Howdy there, you think I'm some kinda fool?" I say (Clint Eastwood in his prime is doing a voice-over so I sound like him)

 

*A tumbleweed blows by, and I reach for my side with blazing speed. I pull the trigger, and a flag that says "BANG" comes out of the barrel*

 

"Well, you're absolutely right." 

 

Ok, enough of that; also, now you are reading this in your head with my normal voice. It is no longer Clint Eastwood in his prime, and it's me now. 

 

Welcome back to another semester. I hope you all have had a great summer and are ready to return to the swing of things! This semester, we are meeting in Curtiss 0208 on Wednesdays from 6 - 7:30 pm (that includes today). I hope I see you all there, as there is much to discuss and laugh about. Including Club Fest, our first show of the semester, and a discussion on how to silence the voices.

 

Ok, now I am back to the Clint Eastwood thing, and it's his voice in your head now and not mine while you are reading the rest of this.

"Take Care now, ya hear?" *Spits into a spittoon and does an epic backflip onto a horse with the sunset behind me. The horse gets up on its hind legs and neighs loudly (also in Clint Eastwood's voice), and I ride off into the sunset*

 

-Billy

 

September 4, 2024

Club Fest Discussion Today

Good morning all,

 

Just a little reminder that there is a club meeting today and that we will be talking about who can man the club fest table and when next coming wednesday.

 

Other than that we will have a generally normal club. 

 

Hope to see you all there!

 

Smol bean,

Billy

September 18, 2024

uuhhhh... guys... I think you need to see this...

Today we are gonna have a meeting for the Stand-Up Comedy Club. 

 

*Thunderstruck begins to play*

 

Are you ready? "I was born ready" you all say in unison.

 

umm.. okay what just happened?

 

Today we will be watching clips from the late Norm Macdonald as this passed weekend was the anniversary of his passing two years ago. Let's kick it up a notch. We will also be talking about new updates regarding our show in early October and collaborations with the Comedy College Class.

 

Is that all you got?

 

No, I'm just getting started...

 

NOBODY MOVE, I also wanted to share that there will be an open mic at Mothers Pub this Thursday hosted by the great and powerful Chasey! Wait.. She's right behind me isn't she..??

 

So be sure to come out to the meeting tonight, but make it quick because ITS GONNA BLOW!

 

gah.. that sounded better in my head,

Billy

September 25, 2024

Show Lineup Today!

Hey all,

This is a reminder that we have another general meeting today at 6 pm! 

We are gonna get our lineup ready, so if you would like to perform at the show, try to make it today (and if you can't, text us and let us know). If you still would like to participate but don't want to perform, there are still many ways you can help! We always need people to help set it up and take it down, and we also need someone to DJ.

If you know of any opportunities to watch/perform, please let me know, but from what I can tell, the only opportunity to perform between this club meeting and the next one is the M-Shop Open Mic, which is October 1st @ 8 pm. 

I hope to see you all there today,

Billy

October 2, 2024

Final Meeting before our After Dark Show!!

Good afternoon all,

Today, we are gonna have our final club meeting before our After Dark show this Friday. We are gonna work on set preparation, and hopefully, everyone will leave today having a good idea of what jokes they wanna tell and in what order they wanna tell them. We will also be taking a small field trip over to the room where we are gonna have our show so we can get a feel for the setup. 

Also, if you are performing in the show, get a good idea of what walk-up song you want (the song you want to have played as you walk up on stage). If you don't tell us what song you want before the show, the song WILL be Creep by Radiohead.

Hope to see you all there,

Billy

October 9, 2024

Show debrief and some cool opportunities

What's poppin' SUCCers!?

Today, we are going to talk about our show last week, share feedback, and see what we can learn from this show going forward. We also have some cool opportunities that are being presented to the club, and we will decide today if we will pursue them, so make sure to be there so you can weigh in! And, of course, this is on top of our usual club activities

Between the meeting today and next week, there will be an opportunity to perform at the M-Shop Open Mic next Tuesday (the 15th).

Remember to like, comment, subscribe, and ring that bell! I hope to see you all at the meeting tonight,

Billy

October 16, 2024

Joke Writing Session Tonight!

Good morning, all my fine funny people,

It is my pleasure to inform you all that we have a very special guest attending our club meeting today. And that guest is none other than the professor of the honors stand-up comedy class, the legendary Gavin Jerome. He will be leading a joke-writing session, and whether you have never written a joke before or have written hundreds, we have a great opportunity today to pick his brain and hear about his process.

What you need to bring: something to write with, something to write on, and most importantly, a PREMISE or IDEA to work on.

It will be tonight at 6 pm in Curtiss 0208.

Hope to see you all there,

Billy

October 23, 2024

Club meeting today!

In the (stand-up) clerb, we all fam.

Today, we are having another general meeting for the Stand-Up Comedy Club! We are gonna briefly plan our next club show for the semester and also figure out when our elections for club officer positions will be held, so be sure to be present to hear about that. We will also implement joke-writing strategies that we learned from Gavin Jerome's last club meeting for our joke-writing portion of the club. And finally, today in club, we will also be repressing feelings of sadness from mid-terms!

 

In terms of upcoming opportunities to perform, we have the following:

M-Shop Open Mic (10/29/24) @ 8 pm

Mother's Pub Open Mic (10/31/24) @ 8 pm

Punch Up/Lockwood Cafe Open Mic (11/7/24) @ 8 pm

Sam's Place Open Mic (10/24/24) @ 8 pm

 

I hope to see you all in the club today! Like the stand-up club meeting, not like "the club" like going out and dancing. I mean, if you wanna do that too, I'm not gonna stop you, but like also come to the meeting tonight, please.

-Billy

October 30, 2024

ELECTIONS TODAY

Hear ye hear ye, esteemed members of Ye Olde Comedy Club

To-day, a rather recumbent activity will be revitalized. For the first time in many a fortnite will the club host a distinguished democratic election with no room for gallivanting.

So, prithee, my highly regarded patriotic compatriots, make haste for this eve's comedy tryst.

 

In other words, elections for next semester's club officer positions are today, and the positions that are open are as follows: President, Vice President, Social Media Chair, and Treasurer. If you would like to run for any of these positions, just have a couple of words prepared as to why you feel like you would be a good candidate and take it at least a little bit seriously. Other than elections, today we will talk a little bit about structuring a set but mostly have a chill time.

Hope to see you all there,

Billy

November 6, 2024

Results of the Comedy Club Elections Today!!

Good morning all,

Today in the club, we will be going over and introducing the next set of club officers for the following semester! Also, today we have a writing exercise that I think will be a lot of fun with some sweet prizes to be won.

We will also be having preliminary talks about our second show of the semester, so before coming in today, just give these questions a little bit of thought: Should we have another show? When are my final exams? What would be the coolest room to have a show in? 

Hope to see you all there today,

Billy

November 6, 2024

Gavin Jerome Writing session today! (on top of election results)

UH OH, BOMBSHELL ALERT

Gavin Jerome will be making it to the club today to speak to us about comedy insights! Sorry if this notice is last minute, but lets please come show our support for the legend himself.

Ok, I'll stop spamming your inboxes now; see you all tonight!

-Billy

November 13, 2024

Joke-writing Activities and Free Comedy Show Tonight!

Howdy all,

We have a couple of cool joke-writing activities with chances to win candy prizes today (bring something to write on and with and perhaps a premise you'd wanna get some feedback on. It's gonna be a good time (cool sunglasses emoji)! Tonight, we also have an opportunity to watch a live comedy performance at the M-Shop tonight for free, so I'll be going right after the club, and anyone who wants to tag along can join.

Hope to see you all there, especially because the room's audio issues are (supposedly) fixed now!

yours truly,

Billy

November 20, 2024

We are Getting Interviewed! (Also meeting tonight)

Howdy, all you funny folk,

That's right, you heard me correctly. We are being interviewed, and to everyone's surprise, it isn't because we are under investigation or something. A journalism student kindly reached out with some interview questions for the members of our group, as she wants to write a piece about our club. If you are interested in participating, here is the link to the Google Form you can fill out. Just keep in mind it is due tonight!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCu9sHH-o_6WBcnwCvh-QQol2JHqOwcr6ciSCWAKmyBPLepw/viewform

Anyways, other than that, we have a great club meeting lined up for you all today (Curtiss 0208 @ 6:00 pm). Since the "Guess the Punchline" game was such a hit last time, we'll do one of those today, along with some Jackbox Quiplash and a joke-writing session.

I hope to see all of you funny people there tonight, and if you don't come, I execute a cute baby animal, and the blood will be on your hands.

Love,

Billy