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PS (Pre-Script):
I've racked my brain out to impress you with this letter. I tried to be funny, but I guess you're way way way out of my league. It took me days (on and off) to figure out how to start, making sure you'd find this letter interesting enough to finish(or at least enough to get to get you to read up to this sentence). I don't think I'm doing well at it, so I give up "impressive."
(end of pre-script)
So I guess, let cliche be cliche (but for what it's worth, this isn't a habit of mine):
Dear Jerry,
(1) I think you rock!
(2) Where've you been?
(3) What've you been up to lately?
You were gone after you released your DVD (that was one --and a half-- fantastic hour); then appeared on Letterman one night (first, your bits on 'nothing' is hilarious; second, this wish may come much too late but here I go anyway: congratulation with the baby) and went MIA again; then you appeared on Bee Movies (which by the way although nowhere near PIXAR's, i like it) and you disappeared again, and still do.
I may be exaggerating this, but I think stand-up comics are creepily brave. When you get up on stage, people expect you to make them laugh; but being so, they're also on disappointed-ready mode (you know this already, lah ya). How do you handle that kind of tension? Does posing a flat face, as you do, help? What is it anyway, your flat face? Is it your natural, given modality? Or is it a personal technique? Is it teachable? Does it come with a manual? Is it available for free? (look at me being cheap)
I suspect you won't be offended when I say that you are not the number one on my comedian list (Now that I think about it, I don't know who it is either). But it is safe to say that yours are probably one of the very very few comic acts almost* without racial nor sex slurs. And I think anyone who crosses out those two items off his or her conversational menu are amazing, comedian included. I find that being funny is mostly about exposing erronous things around us. And with our civilization preoccupied with war (mostly racial in nature, if not, discriminative for sure) and love (potentially in sexual fashion), it is almost too easy to find how we err, and make fun of them.
So I guess comedian --or anyone, for that matter-- who chooses to leave out those two items from his or her daily routine is one who takes the road least travelled. That makes your act not only pleasant, but also an honor, to attend to.
And that is why I hope you come back soon.
So I guess I'm not being funny after all.
Sincerely yours
adih.
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Note:
` More about stand-up comic from Wikipedia.
` More about Jerry Seinfeld from Wikipedia.
* The word 'almost' is added after a comment from a friend.
PS (Pre-Script):
I've racked my brain out to impress you with this letter. I tried to be funny, but I guess you're way way way out of my league. It took me days (on and off) to figure out how to start, making sure you'd find this letter interesting enough to finish(or at least enough to get to get you to read up to this sentence). I don't think I'm doing well at it, so I give up "impressive."
(end of pre-script)
So I guess, let cliche be cliche (but for what it's worth, this isn't a habit of mine):
Dear Jerry,
(1) I think you rock!
(2) Where've you been?
(3) What've you been up to lately?
You were gone after you released your DVD (that was one --and a half-- fantastic hour); then appeared on Letterman one night (first, your bits on 'nothing' is hilarious; second, this wish may come much too late but here I go anyway: congratulation with the baby) and went MIA again; then you appeared on Bee Movies (which by the way although nowhere near PIXAR's, i like it) and you disappeared again, and still do.
I may be exaggerating this, but I think stand-up comics are creepily brave. When you get up on stage, people expect you to make them laugh; but being so, they're also on disappointed-ready mode (you know this already, lah ya). How do you handle that kind of tension? Does posing a flat face, as you do, help? What is it anyway, your flat face? Is it your natural, given modality? Or is it a personal technique? Is it teachable? Does it come with a manual? Is it available for free? (look at me being cheap)
I suspect you won't be offended when I say that you are not the number one on my comedian list (Now that I think about it, I don't know who it is either). But it is safe to say that yours are probably one of the very very few comic acts almost* without racial nor sex slurs. And I think anyone who crosses out those two items off his or her conversational menu are amazing, comedian included. I find that being funny is mostly about exposing erronous things around us. And with our civilization preoccupied with war (mostly racial in nature, if not, discriminative for sure) and love (potentially in sexual fashion), it is almost too easy to find how we err, and make fun of them.
So I guess comedian --or anyone, for that matter-- who chooses to leave out those two items from his or her daily routine is one who takes the road least travelled. That makes your act not only pleasant, but also an honor, to attend to.
And that is why I hope you come back soon.
So I guess I'm not being funny after all.
Sincerely yours
adih.
---
Note:
` More about stand-up comic from Wikipedia.
` More about Jerry Seinfeld from Wikipedia.
* The word 'almost' is added after a comment from a friend.
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