We Need To Be In The Open

We All Operate In Two Contrasting Modes, Which Might Be Called Open And Closed. The Open Mode Is More Relaxed, More Receptive, More Exploratory, More Democratic, More Playful And More Humorous. The Closed Mode Is The Tighter, More Rigid, More Hierarchical, More Tunnel-visioned. Most People, Unfortunately Spend Most Of Their Time In The Closed Mode.

By Watching The Great, Old Comedians I Picked Up A Few Tricks About How To Do Physical Comedy. And Whenever I Could Learn Something, I Sort Of Added That To My Repertoire.

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When You Do Comedy In Front Of An Audience, They Are The Ones Who Tell You Whether It's Funny Or Not And Which Bits Are Funny And Which Bits Need To Be Fixed.

I Learned A Lot Of Things About Literature Talking To People At The Publishing Company. Did You Know That About 90 Percent Of Celebrity Autobiographies Are Ghostwritten?