Well my friends, the cold cruel world remains stubbornly insistent that “I’m busy writing dick jokes!” doesn’t excuse me from paying my bills. I know, right?! It seems unfair that I missed out on being a Court Jester for some inbred Royal Patron, back in the day (followed by wenching it up by night1). Business [...]
I recently started learning to play the piano, which means that I currently suck out loud in neighbor-terrorizing fashion. On the way to my lesson today, I psyched myself up by repeating the simple trick for learning anything: embrace failure. We can’t be good at something until we’ve first spent a lot of time being [...]
One of the basic truths of a comedy career is that at various times, you’re going to pass some comics, and some others are going to pass you.1 There are a lot of good reasons to do comedy, but a maniacal desire to crush every other comic, in some sort of giant undeclared Comedy Thunderdome [...]
Following the story of the worst stage fright I’ve ever personally seen, I’ve been thinking a bit about my own pre-stage jitters before a show. I still get a bit tense before a show, but it’s gone from nearly debilitating to fairly mild. If a 10 is passing out on stage, a zero is total [...]
When writing a joke, or any other humorous material, try to arrange your punchline in such a way that the funny word goes last. This is an old axiom among TV comedy writers, and it applies equally well to stand-up comedy. Since the key element in humor is surprise, leaving your funniest and most surprising [...]
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