Kennedy Space Center
The fact that UKIP is winning and that they have come so close to winning in other areas should cause real concern for the more mainstream parties.
UKIP is not going away and the general public is starting to lean towards them, especially in areas where diversity is far lower than other parts of the country and mild racism is popular - and I know because I live just down the road.
Due to declining subscriptions, The Magazine is shutting down.
I was certainly a subscriber, but I found I just didn’t want to read the issues. It wasn’t the format, the medium, or how it was implemented by Newsstand, I just didn’t find the articles interesting.
This sounds like the risks of running not only a business, but a publishing business.
Still, sad to hear about this.
I knew it.
My debut novel, Song of the Universe, is available for Kindle now.
And you know with a Nolan film, we haven’t seen the best yet.With each new trailer, this just looks better and better. Like all the best science fiction, it looks big and bold yet not all that different from a reality we can envision.
Might experiment with this.
Sometimes, your greatest strength is your greatest weakness.
Notes on Comedy
I can’t write humorously in my prose, but I’m pretty slick at the funny comment, or one liner response in an email. I’m far better in person, regularly making people laugh.
So, how can you be funny? How do comedians ad-lib so well?
There’s a few rules that can help.
OPPOSITES
When you ask a question, your mind knows roughly want kind of response should follow. Playing on this fact can give you great comedic results.
If you’re asked a question, respond with the polar opposite of what would be expected.
A couple of examples:
"Can I ask you a question?"
“Nope.”
"How does the moon stay in the sky?"
“Really thick cables.”
Opposites can also be used about yourself. If you’re fat, talk about a time when you were a gymnast and won at the Olympics… Then your bones grew. If you’re a man, talk about wearing a dress to an event. If you have no hair, say you need to straighten your hair tonight. If you’re a woman, talk about how, when you were a man, you used to fart all the time.
RANDOMNESS
Say the most random thing you can think of and not even blink. Especially if you build this up with seriousness. This gets people engaged and think you are going to say something really important.
"I have to get this off my chest. It’s eating me up inside. I love Care Bears."
"I went to Starbucks yesterday and bought a unicycle."
"I’m thinking of taking up Scientology. I’ve always wanted to be a scientist."
THE RULES OF THIRDS
For what ever reason, threes seem to be key to a lot of things. The holy trinity, photography and comedy.
Of course, you have the Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman jokes. But what I’m talking about is the use of a gag multiple times.
You should not use the same gag more than three times. After that, the joke becomes stale and can even become uncomfortable.
However, there’s something great about saying the same gag three times, especially after a decent gap where our audience have learnt the gag and understand it. And they know it’s coming.
Comedy has rules. Comedians may seem to be a law unto themselves, but the truth is they know exactly what they are doing. They are playing on the laws of society, psychology and comedy.
Anyway, I’m off to smoke some more crack.