Wednesday, June 3, 2009

It's Great to Post Here!

and here!....and here!

That was one of Steve Martin's jokes, except he would stand in different spots on stage.

I just finished Martin's book Born Standing Up. It was a pretty good read, but seemed to indicate I would need to suffer 10 years of floundering before I succeed. He had a policy of never finishing a joke. He would just build the anticipation and then move on, causing the laugh after the joke was supposed to have ended. Very strange, and probably hard to implement. He also did a lot of sight gags, magic and singing, and just strange things. And he was the most popular comedian for a few years. So different from the screaming and yelling that is Dane Cook.
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  1. Michael DreibelbisJune 4, 2009 at 9:54 PM

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  2. CarolJune 4, 2009 at 9:57 PM

    Your method of building up anticipation could be giggling a lot to yourself before you tell the joke. It HAS to be funny if you think it's funny, right? Everyone will love it.

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  3. LucasJune 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    Very different from Dane Cook. In that Steve Martin is actually funny.

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