Phoenix interview with The Halves

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 16th, 2009

With Mottley’s being named Best Of and this interview, it should be a pretty swell weekend in Boston. We’re heading up there for one show Friday and one show Saturday.

Sarah Faith Alterman must use a tape recorder. None of our pearls of wisdom were hacked into unrecognizable mush!

SKENE: We do have people come up to us a lot after shows, and I can just sense that they want to be a comedian. I tell them, the first thing you have to do is get onstage. (I’m always trying to talk people into getting onstage!) Go to open mics. Watch as much live stand-up as you can. That’s the only way to know if you like it. You have to keep doing it! You can take a class, but that puts you about three months ahead of everybody else. Stage-time is the only way you can get better. You just have to get up there and do it. Singers can practice in their basement, actors can practice with other actors. Comedians have to get up onstage and practice in front of a crowd. It’s more than just being funny and making people laugh; you have to be able to handle a certain amount of autonomy.

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