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Five minutes on the school-bus years
My set about the route, the kids and the one who always sat behind me.
Writing jokes on index cards
How I write one joke per card and shuffle them into a set.
My first open mic, three years later
I watched the tape of my first five minutes. Here is what I’d change.
Coffee and cards before I go on
What I do in the corridor in the ten minutes before a set.
Writing at the kitchen table
My Monday morning: notebook, coffee and the cat.
Reading the room from the stage
What a quiet crowd tells you, and what to do about it.
Keeping a joke notebook
How I write down what happens in a day before I forget it.
Jokes I wrote on the bus
Riding the 54 with a notebook, and the set that came out of it.
Starting stand-up after fifty
What is harder, what is easier and why it is worth it.
Five minutes on my daughter’s dare
The set about how I started, tried on a Thursday crowd.
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