Practice publishing your raw ideas in obscurity

​Years ago I went to a Robin Williams’ comedy event called "Raw" where he was testing out new material.

As a big fan of his movies -- I was very surprised that, at the event, most of the jokes he told were terrible. I had no idea that he was so un-funny :)

But this is how many comedians do it. I've heard that Chris Rock does this too. And so did Richard Pryor. These are called “work in progress” gigs.They test out new material in front of smaller live audiences (free or discounted rate) without pu...