The Year In Review
As yet another Christmas has come and gone I am looking back at my year in comedy and how the events in my personal life helped shape my material. Nine months is a long time to go without. Nine months is also a long time to have something and watch it flourish and grow. At the start of 2014 I did not have a stage...
Read MoreFunny Puzzles That Aren’t Puzzling
When you watch or listen to comedy, at what point do you expect to laugh? Do you expect to laugh right when the comedian says the punchline? If the comic takes his time with the joke to slow it down a bit, then tells the punchline, with the laugh following a second or two later, does that mean the comedian...
Read MoreFirst Impressions Of The Laugh Shop
When we (girlfriend and I) pulled into the parking lot at the Park Town hotel off of 25th Street, there is a parkade that is behind the seniors complex but right beside the hotel. As we parked there were some people at the parkade entrance waiting for friends to arrive, while others got their parking tickets from...
Read MoreMaking Critics Eat Crow – The Recipe In One Easy Blog Posting
The date was towards the end of May, after my birthday in 2013. I don’t remember the exact date. This particular set was one week after the successful comeback set (the first one constructed with the help of my comedy coach). This set started bad, had some promise in the middle then fell flat yet again. I...
Read MoreMonkey See, Monkey Do…….Right?
Let’s say you go to the toy section of a department store and you want to purchase a puzzle. You think that you have an idea what the finished puzzle will look like based on the box, but at some point of putting the puzzle together, whether it be the beginning, the middle or the end, the puzzle pieces change...
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