Many people (and by “many people” I mean my wife and my parents) have asked me what it was exactly that made me think I could even be remotely funny as a stand-up comic. I’m blessed to have a loving and supportive family. However, I’ve been thinking long and hard about this because I found it to be a compelling question and, more importantly, Jim had given me a deadline and I had to submit something for this month’s blog.
The biggest factor in developing my comic ear is the fact that I have spent my entire working life in the Service Industry. Unless you have been under a rock or a Republican the past 20 years, you would know that the Service Industry makes up 67% of our nation’s economy. (Those numbers are made up, but it has to be close, don’t you think?) I submit that working with the public since I began my working life in 1981 has fine-tuned my comic sensibilities. The most important lesson a service job teaches is how to manipulate people, a skill needed in every comic’s repertoire. I learned how to manipulate people in my very first job!
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