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the core of most humor comes from us relating to each other and the awkwardness of the human experience.
There is an improv element to medicine that not a lot of people think about. And when you do an improv scene in comedy, you’re trying to find the truth of the scene. It’s the same thing in medicine.
Of course, once corporations saw that there was potential to make money with this new invention, there was no turning back.
Think about it: without comedy based on mix-ups and misinterpretations, there wouldn’t have been eight seasons of Three’s Company … we wouldn’t have fallen in love with a bartender on Cheers named Coach … and Gilligan and his island buddies would certainly have been rescued like, I dunno … four hundred times.
You had to be sharp to live in that world, to not only exist, but to flourish in that world. You know how tough you had to be? Incredible. I have tons of respect. There were only a couple of women back then; her and Lucille Ball; just fucking survivors … like ninjas.
television is a visual medium, and the colors and costumes and sets could be everything from elaborate to gaudy, to very elaborate and very gaudy,
It was a book called Wired, and it’s the biography of one of my forever heroes, John Belushi.
(And for our younger readers: a typewriter is like a computer that doesn’t play movies, or have access to the internet, and you can only use it to create words on a piece of paper. Okay, paper. Hm. Paper is made from trees.)
There are no mistakes, only gifts. No matter what is thrown at you, you can make it work.
Now, a conflict isn’t always a fight or an argument with another person. A conflict can also be the challenge that’s presented by an inanimate object.
