I have been writing comedy for many years now, starting out in 1992. The only comedy I have performed has been sketch comedy, and never live (apart from in my High School drama class). I love the idea that I can be creative in my writing and then I can film it, using as many takes as needed. This is the beauty of my comedy career to date, numerous delete buttons. Then in early 2014, I decided to see if I could transfer my writing skills into a stage performance and booked my first ever stand-up gig.

I had been following Bobbie for a while, and she followed me too (not like a pair of confused pathetic stalkers) on Twitter, I have no idea how we found each other, but I am glad that we did.

I was nervous about my first performance, so approached Bobbie about having a one on one session (I need to be careful, I fear I am heading into ‘Carry On’ film territory in this review), the only issue was our geographical locations. I am living in the United Kingdom and Bobbie, as you all know, lives in the country that stole our language. That was all fine, Bobbie is set up to be able to run her tutorials via Skype. Bobbie asked me to go through the short (9 minute) routine without stopping, she wanted me to do it as if I was performing. During this time, Bobbie was obviously making notes and occasionally I would hear a giggle. When I finished my routine, Bobbie went through it joke by joke, pointing out the best way to deliver each punchline, how to shorten jokes etc. The most amazing thing though, was when she broke certain jokes into two, she had discovered moments when I was being funny without knowing it. As a writer, it was incredible that someone could find two jokes in one. I suppose that with Bobbie helping it was kind of like, ‘Write one joke, get one free’.

I felt really comfortable throughout the session, she was open and honest, pointing out things I had never thought about. Bobbie is truly an artist, she knows how to make a good joke great. There is an art in delivering jokes, and without Bobbie’s help, I’d never have learned that art.

I like to be totally honest and have to say that stand-up isn’t really for me, I love writing too much. I also love that comfort of a video recording. However, I would recommend everyone, experienced or not, to make use of Bobbie’s services. If your jokes and performance are worth $500 at the moment, invest in a session or two with Bobbie and they’ll sky rocket in value. I am confident when I say, you will increase your audience laughs, simply by spending half an hour in the company of Bobbie.

A great professional, a very talented comedian, a good friend and best of all, she let me keep my trousers on for the Skype session!