Last month we hosted our first reader meetup and comedy night. Ten brave readers took the stage. Here are the photos, including the moment the microphone stand gave up.
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Click any image to enlargeLessons From the Open Mic
Five minutes on stage teaches you more than five years of practicing in the shower. Here is what the microphone taught us.
- Silence is louder than any heckler
- Your best joke is the one you almost cut
- Always know where the exit is
Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.
E. B. White, A Subtreasury of American Humor
Come to our next reader meetup. We save the front row for people who laugh at everything.
A quick note on how this post came together: the idea arrived in our tips inbox, survived two editorial meetings, one argument about whether it was actually funny, and a vote that was decided by the office cat walking across the keyboard. We cleaned it up, checked every detail, and added only the jokes we could defend in front of our mothers.
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