Stand-Up
“I’m no George Carlin, but I had my moments.”
A couple of weeks ago, I digitized some old videotapes of me doing stand up. I used to have a lot of them. Most clubs had a guy in the back you could pay to record you. I had one or two I gave to agents or whoever, but mostly they were to work on my act. I watch them to see what worked, what I could fix, what I should dump.
When stand-up comedy works we…
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