Thrilled to have delivered a preview of “The Funny Thing about Laughter” show in Buckinghamshire to the fifty strong crowd crammed into the venue. As with any wok in progress there was stuff to notice and learn BUT it went well …. and was well received.
My two favourite comments so far have been:
“should be available on prescription” and
“Brilliant fun filled evening! Now the first rule of laughter club …… “
But this additional overheard comment is making me laugh:
“That was so much better than I thought it was going to be!!’
In the previous post I was convinced that the picture represented the best blue plaque ever. However I bumped into one in Harwich that may compete. It proudly stated that Samuel Pepys MIGHT have visited there as it was where a friend of his lived! (I couldn’t help wishing Samuel had kept a diary or the like so we could check)
Been scribbling some material for my first gig in a year and a half.
Good Evening Folks. This is is the first time I have done this in eighteen months! Not what you want to hear I know but hey at least I’m not your pilot!
Childishly chuffed that a gag and a poem I wrote made it into print in the wonderful Sorted Magazine. (And my teachers said I wouldn’t amount to much *laughing*)
The two pieces are these:
Looking ahead to our news coverage today:
The morning news will reveal what the Government are planning to say today, and although it is neither interesting nor important, we want you to know that we know.
The lunchtime news will be mainly comprised of footage of the Government saying what it is that we told you they told us they were going to say. There will also be some commentary from a reporter standing outside the place where it was being said.
The evening news will be an in depth look at what the Government said, it will also give us a chance to confirm that we said they would say it. This report will be further padded out with interviews asking the public whether what was said was a surprise.
The news will close with a story about a giraffe that has been born somewhere.
This will broadly be the pattern for tomorrow as well, but the animal may vary.
Delighted to have a booking for the St Ives Festival in September. Going to be performing my one man show “The Funny thing about Laughter!”
Comedian and Amateur Gelotologist, Ian Macdonald shares his adventures and mishaps in the world of Stand-up comedy, and the surprising, liberating discovery he made about laughter along the way.
An evening celebrating laughter, and how we all might find a little more of it in our lives
“The problem is that we working professionals have fallen off a humor cliff. This conclusion is based on research with over 1.4 million people, in 166 countries, who were asked a really simple question: “Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?” At age 16, 18, or 20, people are largely saying yes. At age 23, the answer quickly becomes no—and we don’t start laughing again until we retire. We go to work and we stop laughing. We asked ourselves, “How would our businesses and our lives change for the better if we had more joy at work?“
‘If you have a hard gig, quiet, a death, a struggle, whatever, you can only be mad and frustrated and gutted until 11am the next day. Then you must draw a line under it and forget about it. As going into the next gig thinking you are s*** will mean you will die.
Equally, if you nail it, slam it, destroy it, whatever, you can only be smug about it until 11am the next day (in the past, I have set an alarm so I could get up and gloat for an extra half hour) as if you go into the next gig thinking you are God’s gift to comedy, you will die. That is Millican’s Law and it totally works. It means you move on quickly.’
Standing Up for Laughter 