Simone Giertz with a few of her creations
Note: I've been writing Medium.com posts in the lead-up to the second-annual Brain Bar Budapest this June (did the same last year). If you're in the neighborhood, this year's lineup is awesome.
Comedy comes in lots of flavors — anecdotal, improvisational, insult, deadpan, sketch, satire, physical, and so on. Simone Giertz,…
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10. Memorizing the lyrics to the Beatles song, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
9. Writing a long essay on the Hamlet-Bojack Horseman linkages.
8. Issuing executive orders around the house, principally to the dog.
7. Intentionally mismatching my daughters’ socks.
6. Attempting to make the sound of one hand clapping.
5. Teaching my Google Home device German.
4. Polishing my wife’s left and right…
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