Playing An Ace From A Sleeveless Shirt
It has been a long and exhausting day in more ways than one. I don’t even know where to begin. I should feel euphoric and elated at my accomplishments today, but the game of life is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes you are too tired from the distance you’ve covered to appreciate how far you’ve...
Read MoreGroundbreakers or Phonies?
One of the things I was taught early on by my comedy coach was that as comedians, we are not only the funniest people in the room but also the most courageous. We get on stage and tell jokes in front of people we have never met, with the expectation that they will laugh. Lots of people want to be us and a lot of...
Read MoreHow Far Will You Go?
When life turns up the heat, you often find out what people are really made of and not what they appear to be. I found this out the hard way from my last relationship. Despite everybody’s best intentions, despite what they post on social media, and despite what they say, all of that goes out the window when...
Read MoreComedians Are The Bolt Cutters Of Life
If you are a comedian and going through something horrible in your life, you will probably write about it. then you become a person outside of yourself who is viewing what happened. You aren’t in there feeling the emotions, the pain of what happened. It’s like a third-person narrative of your life with...
Read MoreCopy Catter
I just finished watching the great documentary on stand up comedy from several years back. It’s called The Art Of Stand-Up that was produced by the BBC. Watch it on YouTube. For anyone who thinks it’s easy to get on stage and tell jokes, you will see there is a lot to it that the average person does...
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