10 Good Things from David Bowie, Anthony Bourdain, Norm Macdonald, Milton Glaser, and Wanda Sykes

"If 10 people don’t leave while you’re onstage, you’re doing it wrong.” And more...

🔗 The audition process for Curb.

The audition process is really intimidating so you don’t know anything, you just have a time and you have to improv with Larry in front of the producers and they give you, as you walk in. little pieces of paper. The little pieces of paper say like, “You’re a waitress and then you see Larry.” You get that and then you walk in and Larry pretty much just starts. So it’s a real exercise in like not having a panic attack.

🔗 Advice from David Bowie 👨‍🎤:

Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar

This is important advice to artists from David Bowie

🔗 What’s 750words.com about? “Writing. Every. Day…The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.”

🔗 You never really “make it.”

Anna Klassen @AnnaJKlassen

You never "make it" as a writer. You can sell a script, staff on a show, have a hit — but then you have to do it again. There's no endless stream of $ or guarantee you'll have a career tomorrow. It's a forever fight down an uncertain road where writing itself is the reward.

🔗 Podcast: Larry Wilmore interviews Mike Birbiglia about jokes, storytelling, and more. They dive deep into the magic of the “inevitable non sequitur” in comedic storytelling and discuss how great jokes are like truth concentrated.

🔗 Nerdwriter: Norm Macdonald Is A Comic Genius

🔗 Anthony Bourdain on the joy of wandering: