Play Like A Great Team
Sometimes, I see house teams do shows in which they technically get everything right: clear premises, getting on the same page, careful listening, speaking truthfully and logical heightening.
But the show was boring.
What is needed is: swagger. A posture of confidence. Without that, a house team looks like a bunch of students.
Through timing and cadence, they ask the audience if what they were doing was funny. But that’s not how it works. Teams SHOW the audience what’s funny, they don’t ask. The first time you hit the game, you’re not asking —- you’re teaching the audience what the joke is. When you hit it a second time, you’re confirming for their sake what the joke is that you already like. If they don’t laugh, it’s not that you did it wrong but that they missed it.
This isn’t condescending, it’s what it means to be deserving of being on stage. You play like you’re right. When the show starts, you are in charge.
