Quote: Tony Cowards @ October 5 2010, 7:04 PM BSTWow.
Double wow.
Get your self two highlight pens and highlight the small laughs and big laughs. The page should be covered in colour. If it isn't, that's a silent crowd. And a crowd may sit silent waiting for a Stewart lee gag, but in the back room of a London pub they won't be so patient
Also worth downloading some stand up scripts....chris rocks is easily found. Now, while his style Is polar opposite to you, it's interesting to see his set on paper. The number of words on the page is tiny, it almost looks like bullet points....yet he conveys so much with those few words.
It's often said with sitcom scripts and the same applies to stand up....cut the waffle.