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From: The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth City!
Registered: May 2006

posted August 28, 2006 03:00 AM         

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Tonight I went to my comedy workshop and did this monologue that wrote during the week. My assignment was about Pluto being demoted. The funniest joke that I had I didn't write in my monologue or even rehearsed....and they laughed like the dickens. (With Pluto being demoted I figure many astrologers are getting phone calls from freaked out Scorpios asking to see if they have to get their charts redone or something. "Am I still compatable with my mate?"...)

My coach says to write everything down and memorize my jokes. I find it hard to do cause when I write the joke down, the moment is gone. It seems like I do opposite to what the world wants me to do and I'm not sure why that is. Coach is saying write stuff down and practise my stuff and I find things are funnier when they first come out of my mouth/mind.

he says to follow my intuition yet follow what he teaches. I really don't think it's my inner crtic.

I'm trying to seek some insight as to what to even do. I'm through with writing stuff down and now I just want to go out and just do it! I don't want to think about stuff any more, I just want to go out and get stuff done. I have spent a lot of my life planning and preparing myself to do things that I rarely took any risks.

Any insights? I'll leave my birth data in case. April 3, 1971 Calgary, Alberta. 9 AM

Thanx.....

ID

PS. My Comedy Instructor is a Capricorn. It's so funny now that I can see my Mars and Aries influences. I can see my aries traits a little clearer now. I don't want to comtemplate about what I have to say and write, I would rather just go with the flow and go from there. My Cappy Instructor firmly belives that we all have to write things down and memorize our jokes. I find that this part is killing me inside when I go to do my monologue. I would rather do it improv style but he states that it's a comedy writing class and things need to be written down.......sigh

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From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005

posted August 29, 2006 02:39 AM         

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Maybe write it down disjointedly.. like the suggestion of it.. even a few words, and let your impulsiveness take it away, and go with it.

Robin Williams, Norm McDonald, Adam Sandler, well, I am just going to name every classic comedien here... they generally ARE spontaneous.

The work shop is there to help you.. but as anything, we all like different things, so take it suggestions and tweak them.. there are no absolutes really, especially not wwhen you are dealing with something as a matter of taste.
So my suggestion is heed his advice so you don't lose some great ideas... like a shopping list, you always go to the grocery store and go 'Oh yeah, I forgot I needed that'.. well you certainly don't want to forget a good joke.... even if you'll remember it later.
Congratulations to you for pursuing it.
To each their own. The class can help you, and you can help the class.. don't fuss about it, adapt!

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