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STUPID IS WHAT STUPID DOES & IT'S FUNNY TOO
| Posted on July 21, 2014 at 2:07 PM |
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I
guess I am the old school type throwback comic. I love the joke. I do
the joke. I live the joke when I'm telling it, and of course I die by
the joke that doesn't work for whatever reason; usually because I've
failed it somehow. I
have realism in my show and a small amount of revealing but most
times it's just about being funny. I've said before my act is where
stupid meets confidence. I rely on stupid being my time machine. I
figure at my age I can have nearly 30 to 40 yrs difference in my era
and much of the audience I'm in front of. Chances are I'm not up on
the latest 20 something's tech, speak, fashion, music or movies etc
etc etc...I'm just not hip to it. But the one thing I can fall back
on is that stupid is timeless. Young, old and in between, what is off
beat stupid is evergreen fertile soil for laughter. It's a fact and I
can live with it and depend on. Ageless
common ground, this stupid. Make
certain I LOVE the new comics that can keep it raw, real and seize a
lot of reality in their material, but for the most part I'm not going
to do that. I will and do speak to real things but always with a
lighter sense of humor. Some
comics say you have to keep your material about personal things. I
agree. I take making people laugh personally and it IS a BIG part of
my personality to love to force people to laugh out loud on purpose.
You've heard of intellectuals? I'm an emotional-lectual, I get off on
the comical ;) That
is my realistic style of the art form of stand up comedy. Coming
up I preferred the comedy of Richard Pryor, he was an artist that
could straddle the line between realism and fantasy, he could be as
funny as anybody about real life but also could have you rolling
about things that many would say was, well...stupid. Pryor
was a true master of stand up. I
suppose what I'm saying is, don't dumb your stuff down but when it
comes to comedy don't be afraid of looking, being, or sounding
stupid. You're
probably on to something. -------------------------- *If
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