Brooke Van Poppelen on Being Funny for a Living

Anyway, the best summary of all of this​​, and how it seems like it will manifest itself in the real world, is from comedian Anthony Jeselnik:

All these comics now, it's almost like the point is to get in trouble. It's like, "Why are you giving me shit? I'm a comic, I'm allowed to say whatever I want." That's wrong, as far as I'm concerned. People t

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When I say serious I

don’t

mean solemn and tedious.

I mean something closer to ‘dynamic persistence’, and a sense of humor is often critical to that. It’s hard to persist for a long time if you ‘take yourself too seriously’. You become rigid, stiff, the opposite of dynamic, and eventually you bang up against something that breaks you one way or ano... See more

5) Fun is rocket fuel . If my hazy memory stands, Perry Marshall said this in the context of biz—as in, if you can genuinely have fun while doing whatever you’re doing professionally, the energy you tap could well launch you to Mars. Maybe this sounds obvious, but to me it was a revelation. I survived graduate school in contemporary art, a niche wh... See more