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Wednesday, 10/12: Steve Macone
Wednesday, 10/12: Steve Macone
Introducing guest reader Steve Macone! Steve Macone is a former headline contributor at The Onion. His essays, humor writing, and reporting have also appeared in the American Scholar, The New York Times, Atlantic Online, New Yorker, Boston Globe Magazine, Morning News, and Salon.com. His work has been featured on NPR, Longreads, and has received notable essay mentions in The Best American series.…
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A funny piece that pretty much summarizes everything I've been reading about the industry for the past five years.
It's like Steve Macone read my mind, then made it funnier.
WIRT: Standup Comity
by Steve Macone (read it here)
(WIRT: What I read today)
Something to think about, that I don't think about enough when I write. Oh hi, nice to meet you. It's my first entry and it's your first time here I'm sure. I write, kind of, unemployed? yes, write? yes. It means the same thing doesn't it.
Interestingly, Kumagai’s preface raised an important issue that every comic eventually learns—what Rick Jenkins, owner of the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square, once told me: that you need the crowd to know that you’re in charge. (Jerry Seinfeld, on his “On Comedy” album, attributes the same idea to Bill Cosby.) That you’re the pilot and not just another passenger. You know what you’re doing and you’re going to take them somewhere, so they can sit back and relax. Most comics just don’t tell the audience they’re in charge. Or follow it, as Kumagai did, with this joke:
I've suddenly realized that I am not writing for my own sake of wanting to write. I want to write because I want people to read it. It's more for myself, right now at least, but in a sense it's also for other people.
So I gota stop feeding my own sense of ego and write for other people (too). I am the PILOT and the PASSENGER in this sense.
People (might have) paid (in the future) for the book that I wrote and dammit they wanna go somewhere. And it's sort of my job to take them there.
Well with that in my mind......
