open mic night at the comedy club
where future comedians begin
everyone gets five minutes
(a tough gig, very brave souls, all)
to try out their material
win over the audience
including this guy
who sat off to the side
looking like he really enjoyed the set.
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‘as soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up
i knew that i would rather be a failure at comedy
than a success in marketing.’
-jimmy carr
oops, it is!! lucky –
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20 years ago, these sweet dance moves premiered at the SundanceFilmFestival 🎶🕺🏼
in one of my all-time favorite movies
here’s your chance to watch:
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“we’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
— japanese proverb
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credits: searchlight pictures, napoleon dynamite, sundance film festival
every august 16th it’s national tell a joke day
not my best holiday
i’m a horrible joke-teller
i’m more of a story-teller
a whole other skill set
all i’ve ever been able to remember
is my one go-to joke
(and even this is iffy, as i often add part of the answer into the question part of the joke)
“what animal loves summer the best?”
“a hot dog!”
(i learned this years ago when my daughter was in a kindergarten talent show and did stand-up comedy)
she got an amazing response perhaps because she was a brave kinder doing stand up and the audience ate it up
i decided it would be my standing joke from that moment on
sure to get a laugh
though when i tell it, in whatever convoluted manner it manages to be delivered
i generally either hear groans or silence from any audience of any age or any number
so i guess the joke’s on me.
“i’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.”
-mitch hedberg
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credits: “hot dog” by doug salati (caldecott award winner), penguin random house, google images
not me, but the same look i get when i realize i’ve forgotten a part of my only joke, yet again.
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i love to tell stories, laugh, talk, improv, and share amusing tid-bits
but for the life of me
i absolutely cannot tell a joke
forgetting a line
mixing up the order
messing up the punchline delivery
all that
and
i only have one joke
and that’s no joke.
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“i don’t know how to tell a joke. i never tell jokes.
i can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes.
but never a joke.”
-lucille ball
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image credit: pinterest
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learning, listening, talking, writing, improv, playing, crying, laughing my face off with stomach hurting fun.
not your usual conference
not your usual hotel drawer reading material
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“you can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
-stephen king
what a lovely way to spend an early autumn afternoon
watching a play unfold in the barn
‘if a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice.
if he leaves it empty, he gets actors.’
-walter scott
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image credit: *barn – farmingtonplayers.org
*“The Barn” has become an icon in the Farmington Hills community. What started in a real dairy barn is now an equally intimate theater experience in a modern, state-of-the-art, handicap-accessible “Barn.” We look forward to seeing you at The Barn.
just curious
why
when hurrying through a drive-through
to grab a quick cup of coffee
at taco bell
(which should have given me pause in the first place)
they handed me my coffee
then
a bag, a spork, and a little cup of thick crema.
maybe they’re too hipster for me
and I just don’t get it.
more fun than getting the surprise in a happy meal at mcdonalds
and more confusing.
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“comedy comes from confusion.”
-vir das
and the rest should stay back?
sign found by the parent drop-off circle
at my school in the morning.
from a class the night before
but it works in the morning too.
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“you cannot have the drama without comedy.”
-tommy wiseau
shhhhh….
epa (environmental protection agency) administrator scott pruit, is spending nearly $25,000 to construct a secure, soundproof communications booth for his office, according to government contracting records. he signed a $24,570 contract earlier this summer with acoustical solutions, a eichmond-based company, for a “privacy booth for the administrator.” he sought a customized version — one that eventually would cost several times more than a typical model — that he can use to communicate privately.
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when i read this i could not help but be reminded of
* ‘the cone of silence’ from the 1960’s spy comedy, ‘get smart,’
one of my all-time favorite shows.
except that this time it’s real.
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*The Cone of Silence is one of many recurring joke devices from Get Smart, an American comedy television series of the 1960s about an inept spy. The essence of the joke is that the apparatus, designed for secret conversations, makes it impossible for those inside the device – and easy for those outside the device – to hear the conversation. The end result being neither secret nor communication.
In popular culture, “cone of silence” is a slang phrase meaning that the speaker wishes to keep the indicated information secret and that the conversation should not be repeated to anyone not currently present. For example: “We aren’t inviting Cindy and her boyfriend to the movies because they embarrass us, but keep that in the cone of silence.”
“to silence criticism is to silence freedom.”
-sidney hook
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credits: nbc television, cbs television, wikipedia, @alt national park service
imagination was given to man to compensate him
for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
– francis bacon
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