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Originally Posted by Jetée
Do not belittle your audience. Or alienate (also can be read as: "pick on") them. Or bore them.
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Yes, be self-effacing instead. It's a safe form of humour you can always fall back on. People want to laugh at you; make it easier for them.
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I cannot stress this enough - please do not stutter, mumble or hesitate if you get flustered. It only takes a matter of seconds in time before you get that long crook around your neck, and you rarely see it coming. Go. with. flow.
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I wouldn't be surprised if comics had a saying: "It's eighty percent timing and twenty percent humour."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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