Live shot/standup and high school theatre

Last week we did live shot/stand up practice in lab. Each of us was given a scenario and we have to come up with our own script for the stand up. When it was my turn, to be honest, it took quite sometime. I made so many mistakes in so little time. I think delivering a stand up is almost like a theatrical act. You need to know when your body has to start moving at the right timing and what the next cue in your line is going to be before you have to do a different thing. At that time my body just refused to correspond to what came out of my mouth. I kept on missing the timing. Apparently I had a hard time doing the choreography while delivering the lines. Not surprisingly, the more I'm nervous, the more I suck. (In relation to the latter case, my instructor suggested me to have practice meditation- which actually helped.)

Somehow this reminded me of my high school theatre experience. A simpler version of it, though. Simpler script, simpler delivery, simpler choreography, and simpler expressions. My instructor once told me, after I delivered a couple of lines, "you don't have to yell." I just smiled embarrassedly. And most of the times, you won't have a director telling you how to do your stand up as you would in a theatre production. The one-man band rules prevail. On a different note, it is a challenge to figure out how the stand up lines are going to fit with the story, having not written the story or logging the tape yet. One of my concern was, how would I avoid saying what's obviously going to be my lead for the story itself. So, I picked something that was more like a technical demonstration of the situation.

Anyways, I think doing a stand up and acting have something in common. You have to do it with your heart.
That's how people are going to believe what you have to say.