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You need to work on your inner game.
The way to keep the attention of everyone is to get eye contact with the audience, scan the faces.
Example: "So I was going down the hill on my old rusty bike from 15 years ago when I saw that great big loser from school, nerdy Sebastian, glasses, overbite... you know the type" Scan the audience, get eye contact with everyone! " But this time he had changed, he was not the annoying guy from school, he was a policeman and he signalled me to stop" Signal to one of the girls. "Man I was about to get pounded into pulp for teasing him during the entire schooltime but he just said: Hey I like your bike. In a very gay way." Here do the official gay gesture to one of the girls.
awesome.
Ok that improvised story sucked but you get the point, this is the way to keep people from going away. It is short and it is funny. It has peaks of exitement and fear!
I'm working on storytelling skills now. Have you taken a workshop from Kosmo by any chance? He emphasizes story-telling. My friend has and he's basically teaching me stuff that he learned from Kosmo.
Some canned stuff works but I'm at the point in my game where I can tell what I'm doing wrong in my sets, but stuff like gay cat or some other unrealistic opinion opener will just get weird looks from your target / obstacle.
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