The worst things you can do in standup
On clapter and more.
Speaking to Vulture about his show Atlanta’s creative priorities, Donald Glover said this:
“The No. 1 thing we kept coming back to is that it needs to be funny first and foremost. I never wanted this shit to be important. I never wanted this show to be about diversity; all that shit is wack to me. There’s a lot of clapter going on. A lot of n−−−−− be like …” — Glover started clapping exaggeratedly — “‘So true, yes, so, so true.’ But what you did isn’t funny; they’re just clapping and laughing to be on the right side of history.”
The two worst things you can do in standup IMO are:
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