Henry Stone: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
We asked comedians to point us to the best online laughs. Henry Stone has served up the comedy stars before they were stars
I write comedy and I direct comedy, and all of the money I make is from making comedy. However not all of the comedy I make is for making money. I like making things that are borne of nothing other than my fancy being tickled. I'm biased because I'm me and me is a perfect boy, but I'm pretty sure that this is the exactly correct way to approach your craft; one for you, one for them.
Ira Glass likes to talk about the taste gap and I like to talk about Ira Glass talking about the taste gap. It's the mental chasm you find yourself in when you're really into your chosen creative pursuit but you haven't flexed your own muscle enough yet and you KNOW IT and it hurts cos you know you suck. I want to half-hijack my own funniest things list to celebrate the taste-gap-closing creative phase because I feel like its necessity is slowly being ignored.
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