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Stand up comedy course: Week 3

By Andrew | Published: February 10, 2010
Tonight was the third stand up class. Just four more to go untill the graduation show case, and just seventeen days until the stand up night at my Toastmasters club. I talked about my experiences in the first class here, but I have decided not to write up the rest of the classes as they [...]
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Stand up comedy course: Week 1

By Andrew | Published: January 13, 2010
I have signed up to an eight week stand up comedy course at the Mad House comedy club in San Diego. We will meet once a week for seven weeks to write and rehearse our routines, then on the eighth week we will perform at a real comedy club. This is something I’ve wanted to do for [...]
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Swearing in Speeches

By Andrew | Published: April 23, 2009
When I was writing my first toastmasters speech a key part of the story revolved around someone swearing at me. I was certain a verbatim quote would cause offense so I adjusted the phrase to “Turn your effing music off!”. This sounded stilted and my mentor thought it was still too strong. After, literally, hours [...]
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