Posts Tagged ‘comedy’
Why a poached egg is funny
I performed in a show in Maine earlier this week called Sound Bites. In addition to telling a story, I also served as the emcee for the evening, introducing storytellers and bantering a bit between stories. Doing my best Elysha Dicks impression. During one of the stories, a storyteller talked about how she can’t cook…
Read MoreI performed stand up comedy for the first time for one very important reason.
Last year, a friend asked me to try stand up comedy with him. I said no and moved on with my life. But knowing I had to follow my “Say yes to everything” philosophy, I called him back the next day and said, “Fine, I’ll do it, but I won’t like it.” We agreed that in…
Read MoreA theory on the funniness of people who routinely interrupt others
Here’s what I know: Humor requires patience. The punch line is almost always the last thing to be said, and yet so many people want to say it first. They can’t wait to get to the funny part, even though it’s the waiting and the building that will make it funny. When I describe my…
Read MoreAlex Pareene’s takedown of Andy Borowitz’s humor in Salon is a joke.
Alex Pareene wrote a take down of humorist Andy Borowitz that I found so infantile that I felt obliged to write a take down of his take down here, even if it means garnering Pareene more attention than he deserves. Based upon his opening paragraph, I knew that I would despise this piece: Andy Borowitz…
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