Creating a Comic

Overheard Backstage peers behind the curtain (or brick wall) into the offstage area where comics gossip, bicker, and make each other laugh. Overheard @ Giggles Comedy Club:
Here’s how I think you can not get AIDS…
This gentleman’s profound announcement was followed by a long and horrifyingly graphic discussion about oral sex, anal sex, circumcision, open wounds, [...]

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Overheard Backstage peers behind the curtain (or brick wall) into the offstage area where comics gossip, bicker, and make each other laugh. Overheard @ Giggles Comedy Club:

“Are you really going to open with your singing again? Seriously, you’re still doing that?”
“I have to.”
“Why don’t you try starting with a punchline. You know, open with a [...]

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