Actor pet peeve
Apr. 24th, 2014 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_gruntDang, man. I know I've talked about this before, but it puts my teeth on edge when auditioning actors laugh at their own jokes in a script. Or, more accurately, *my* jokes that they're reading.
I don't know why they do this. It's always awkward and never funny. It doesn't make the joke funnier. It's the WORST thing to do in a real-live show. If you think the joke isn't landing, you just go past it.
But they're not doing it because the jokes aren't funny or they aren't landing. It's some sort of nervous/self-conscious tick.
It's my one super-consistent piece of audition feedback. Don't laugh at the jokes within the script. Then you're just the weird character uncomfortably laughing at themselves.
I don't know why they do this. It's always awkward and never funny. It doesn't make the joke funnier. It's the WORST thing to do in a real-live show. If you think the joke isn't landing, you just go past it.
But they're not doing it because the jokes aren't funny or they aren't landing. It's some sort of nervous/self-conscious tick.
It's my one super-consistent piece of audition feedback. Don't laugh at the jokes within the script. Then you're just the weird character uncomfortably laughing at themselves.
