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More Random Observations
I have been trying new material and some of it is working so I can do longer sets. I have been thinking about the economics of standup comedy and wonder whether the demise of the sitcoms is “clogging the pipeline” with too many standup comics. In the past, many of the best went off to […]
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New Material
I have been developing some new material including some very risky but potentially interesting stuff - its always a bungee jump to try the new stuff but I have a bunch of gigs coming up and I think I will pull the trigger. I will give a report next week on: 1. Homeless in Bethesda, […]
A Moment with Phil Mause…
Did another set at Damons in Hunt Valley Sunday - for some reason this room really seems to work for me although my set was competing with the last 5 minutes of the Giants-Packers playoff game. I still have trouble figuring out what my target audience is. I often do better with […]
The Mystery of Standup
I am continuously perplexed about the place of standup in American and world culture. Almost alone among the art forms, it does not receive governmental or charitable subsidy. Why should the opera be subsidized rather than standup? Perhaps because standup is viewed by the “elite” as a kind of “low brow” form of entertainment. On […]
My birthday. 63.
Doesn’t really seem that long. Started standup three and a half years ago and I feel I have been doing standup half my life. New material still comes hard - I can sit down and try to write for hours and have nothing happen and then get a good idea […]