These major events include HBO s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Just for Laughs in Montreal, Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia. Other comedy festivals are the Vancouver Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy and Film Festival, the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Ireland, and the more prominent Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. Here are several things you should know first and foremost about punchlines, especially in any standup comedy act. It would help you a lot if you would know these insights by heart. First, spoken punchlines should be less than about nine words. The shorter a punchline is, the better it gets. Avoid very long punchlines as the audience surely would not notice and get them. This something is called talent and as most of us know these so-called talents allow each person to be part of a specialized field. There are those who can build roads and bridges while others are able to develop means for lengthening the life of another individual. There are also those who in their unique kind of way bring joy to spectators with every stroke of magical wit and skill. People in the comedy industry coined the performance of this kind of material as working blue. Moving on, character comedy is a method used by comedians in order to present a character of their own creation. There have been a lot of comical personalities that have received huge amounts of success for tapping the principles of character comedy. You may not believe it but in standup comedy, it is very rare that comedians get spontaneous. Thus, many beginners have the impression and the wrong impression that success solely depends on a good material. What you should realize is that presentation and delivery counts more. A bad comedy material may be hilarious if delivered well by a skilled comedian. It is not that easy to get into this field, which is why many of the people that you will meet at these places have been doing this for a long time already, hoping that some big-wigs from the showbiz industry will tap them and offer them contracts. The more you feel like people hate you during your performances at open mic venues, the more that you should feel satisfied with your work.