My first full year of stand up occurred in my 55th year of life. Every time I went up, I wrote about it the next day. I performed and wrote about comedy more than ninety times in one year. My book offers the reader a first person glimpse of what it’s like to perform in open mics at multiple comedy clubs, compete in comedy contests and roast battles, perform in bar shows and other strange venues. You get a feel of the commitment required to write hundreds of jokes in order to produce a small Continue Reading
Epilogue
It’s been a year and nine months since I started performing comedy on a consistent basis. I can’t write “full time” because I worked during that stretch and certainly wasn’t earning a living from comedy. When I got started, I considered myself more of a writer than a performer. I wrote a book that I self published (and then had to self purchase) (truth is the root of all good comedy). I’ve always wanted to perform comedy. I thought I could become a good comedian but, starting in my Continue Reading
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 50
- Next Page »