This year I am taking on learning new things. It's been a while since I put myself into a course of any kind, and it's awesome!
First up - NZ Comedy School, with this guy, Neil Thornton. One of the kindest, funniest and most aware men I've ever known.
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| We hosted an award show together once. Didn't actually plan our costumes, but this happened! |
Neil is from New York, came here with his doctor husband, and decided to take on the stand up comedy scene like a boss.
It's a four class, two one-on-one sessions course culminating in a graduation show at the Fringe Bar. Mine is this Thursday. Eep!
I've done stand up before and I do funny stuff on stage all the time, but never with any kind of writing basis, because the idea of planning to say something and crafting it is confronting. What if it's no good?
But I'm pushing through and having fun. Why? OMG i would love to do gigs where it doesn't take 2 hours of hair and makeup and costuming!
'What if it's no good?' would be at the forefront of my mind too.
ReplyDeleteYES!! The thing is, it's just a few words and then it's gone. I will happily cut into $1000m fabric because I know what I am doing, because 40+ years experience. I just remind myself that if I stuff up some words, I still have another night, I still have a stage career, and I've not wrecked someone's $1000m fabric!
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ReplyDeleteYou've got the grit to see it through and I bet you do well. Whatever happens, you've got loud applause from here!
Very best,
Natalie in ky
Aw thank you lovely! I had a ball on stage at the graduation show, very strange only wearing a normal amount of makeup!
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