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The last time I performed in Moscow, I did it at an English-speaking show. The producer told me I can joke about whatever I want: politics, lgbt, war are all fine – but I need to be mindful of cultural references. English-speaking Russians will understand the language, but not the jokes about Erewhon. Indeed indeed.…
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I hate when people let the fruits of their creativity go spoiled, unpicked, rotting under the tree. If you’re like me, you love coming up with ideas – in fact, you have so many of them, your notebooks, note-taking apps, and napkins are everywhere. Artists have the privilege to dive into the void and come…
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The funny idea can work both as a stand alone and a story. Here is how I expanded an old stand-up joke of mine into a 2 minute sketch I’ve put up as a part of Pack Theater sketch team Moonshot. A joke: The cool thing about being a non-native speaker is that as an…
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Look inside my suitcase.
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I recently watched ‘Oppenheimer’ – a movie about one man *obsessed* with physics. It’s a lot like ‘The Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Pi’ – the main character is consumed: he daydreams about periodic table over morning coffee, he sees particles in his sleep. It’s dramatic and sexy. That made me wonder: if they made a movie…