If you want to excel at stand up comedy faster than those around you, write more. write well past the point in which you have run out of words and ideas. Writing comedy is a make or break habit. Learn to concoct and produce on an empty tank. One trick is writing all your tangents in the margin until you have exhausted the subject. Then go back and flush out the tangents as independent concepts with their own tangents. The practice is exponential. Learn to write more. The ability to produce holds the highest premium in our craft, and if you have it you are primed for success. write. write more. write more than the others. Then and there you will find success. That is the best I can offer