I'd like to meet:
I am looking forward to meeting you.
I hope that you are already amongst the next group of performers who have decided to work with me.
Why?
So that you can quickly advance to the next level in your comedy career.
For example endorsements from my client list along with their national TV credits, please go here and click on
"Client quotes and Client tips"
David Feldman's quotes and tips
Once you have read and begun to digest David Feldman's quotes and tips along with David's two pages of national TV writing/performing credits, you may be ready to begin The Journey.Please notice that no one is on either my top Friends Space or Friends Comments sections by accident.
JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye remains the second most read book of the 20th Century.
"The Pitbull of Comedy" aka Bobby Slayton is the best value for your dollar in the local comedy club scene; you will subconsciously find yourself doing his infectious character for days after you see him perform live.
Alfred E. Newman has some excellent one-liners from past Mad Magazines.
Hopefully, more of my top Friends will soon be adding video clips to their MySpace profiles which feature them delivering their best jokes, plus some longer video clips of them performing their complete bits.
In the meantime, I have already added links to some selected online video clips and will continue to add more links, as appropriate.
As for the one-liner comics, whenever I introduce a woman comic and say, "This woman is the Second Funniest Woman in America," I am always asked, "Who is First: Joan Rivers?" Since 1977, no other name has ever been guessed!
Joan Rivers: "Joan Rivers at the Logies!"
Bob Hope used a team written script for his topical monologue.
Rodney Dangerfield was the standard against which all other comics were measured for tightness of writing and Laughs Per Minute when Johnny Carson ran "The Tonight Show" and success there still had some meaning.
Premise Routine structure is traceable from Mark Twain through Lenny Bruce down to the Bill Cosby-Richard Pryor-Eddie Murphy triumvirate, as well as many other excellent classical comedians:
Lenny Bruce "to is a preposition...come is a verb"
Bill Cosby "Chocolate Cake"
George Carlin: "Finding a Place for My Stuff"
Jackie Mason: "Proving premises"
Woody Allen, Andy Rooney, Lilly Tomlin, Milt Kamen, The Smothers Brothers, Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci), WWW Wrestlers, Professor Irwin Corey, Bill Rafferty, Jim Giovanni, Tree, some of Robin Williams, etc. There are both Simple and Complex premise routine structures which I can demonstrate to you during our coaching appointments. How? By example-example-example.
Of course, you may occasionally be brilliant without excessive meaning,
if you have the right moves:
OkGo Dance: "On Treadmills!"
8-)
And now, for something completely serious:
One of the top comics of all time died Saturday, March 10, 2007.
Tribute to Richard Jeni
R.I.P.
March 10, 2007
To get in touch with the significance of his many accomplishments,
please watch the online performance video clips of Richard Jeni
Then, learn how to add movement to your act:
1) play the Jeni clips again with the sound off
2) Do same drill with Richard Pryor video clips
as Jeni cited Pryor as his role model for comedy
and Jeni 's excellent stage movement is ample evidence
that Jeni studied the master well.
3) Watch my 30 minutes of free online video clips which are a preview of my 2-day class on Professional Stage Movement: for comics & speakers
