Groundbreakers 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 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...
Read MoreWhat It Takes
There is an interview with a local headliner that really stood out for me, and gave me the enlightenment that I have sorely needed. I know the local headliner, he is a good guy, Christian and has a unique sense of humour. I won’t mention his name, because I’m not sure if he would want it done in my blog...
Read MoreMy 100 Month Review
I was living at mom and dads at the time, unemployed, yet again. I was 38 years old, and my stuff was in a storage unit that my parents paid for. I had just started sessions with my life coach a couple months before, and would then come home to being treated like a kid instead of an adult. Instead of being...
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