stephen365

My experience:
Relax - you're on to a winner. Most everyone in the audience will want you to succeed, so it's a good crowd and unless you make a total ******** of it, you're not going to go too far wrong.
The box fizz referred to is a good trick - my brother did it for mine and included a brick like cuffy's story - went down a storm.
+1 on the not reading too many cards - it's v boring and to be frank, no-one gives a sh*t!
I once went to one that started "being asked to be best man is like being asked to sh*g the queen - it;s a great honour, but you wouldn't really want to go through with it - also got a great laugh.
If you use prompt cards, write SLOW DOWN & SMILE on the top of every one!
Practice, practice, practice - in front of the mirror or wherever. Makes it much slicker.
There are few gags about that will raise a laugh, but you need to have a feeling for the audience - are they all oldies/drunk etc?
Another one I remember was "Dave is so inexperienced in the bedroom that he thought Mutual Climax was a Building Society!" - everyone p*ssed themselves.
I've done it twice and loved both.
Good luck.