Download<\/a><\/p>\nIn this episode I talk to a fellow juggler and entertainer John Nations. We touch on street shows, but concentrate mostly on our ideas about comedy and juggling, and our comedic influences, and we rant quite a bit about the things we hate about other professional comedians. <\/p>\n
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Random notes:
\nEscaping the juggling wasteland of South Carolina.
\nThe class clown.
\nYou’re not the best juggler in the world\u2026 rely on jokes instead?
\nNew material for street shows.
\nDeveloping comedy without talking.
\nMime with talking and sound effects. Hypnosis shows without hypnosis.
\nSurround yourself with funny.
\nThe comedy mind is a muscle.
\nTell jokes because YOU want to, even if the audience doesn’t understand.
\nThe audience is more important than your ego.
\nGiving variety to the audience is more important than showing your juggling wang.
\nThe permission to be funny AND do technical juggling, not instead of.
\nMagicians describing what they do is redundant.
\nMagicians and jugglers use their skill as growing up as a substitute for social skills.
\nTributes to other comedians\u2026 or just ripping off their jokes?
\nTen hours of new material in ten years\u2026 can it be all A-grade?
\nSometimes you want to see the greatest hits!
\nAdmiring comedians for doing clean material about well-trod topics.
\nChallenge: be funny with no props!
\nNo comedy subject should be out of bounds.
\nInspiration from bad examples.
\nLuke rants about dishonest, stale comedians.
\nI want to be compared to the best, and I want to be the worst person on stage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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