OllieNort wrote:
> Skyvings act has its moments. An infomercial could hi lite them.
> Make you think the whole act is funny. But no act is entirely funny.
Not if it goes on too long, which typically they do. I spent a lot
of time in comedy clubs. I was drunk a lot, just hanging out, but I
went up too. Skyving agrees with me that we both know what we want to
do up there but it's not always easy to bare the soul. Yes Skyving
can be funny, otherwise I would not have liked him from when I first
met him at the Comedy Cave back in the early 80s, I believe, some time
around then. He is too dependent on material in the form of
punchlines - jokes. It's really hard to get away from jokes and just
go with the flow. It's hard to be yourself on stage. I do not have
stage fright, I'm pretty good up there, comfortable, unless I am
without an act. I knew that what I was doing was an act and could not
escape the burden of that. Yet I never had the guts to go up and take
a wild chance and bare my soul, afraid perhaps that I might reveal my
true inner ugliness in some way such as being a killer, a thief, or
worse a homosexual. Truth serum may be the answer. Fuck getting high
- just take truth serum and hit the stage, there's got to be some
humor in that even for non comics who do it.
TJ