OK, Welcome, Everybody, to Another Guest-Lecture Primetime Here Today
Andrew Clark: OK, welcome, everybody, to another guest-lecture Primetime here today. We have a wonderful, wonderful guest who’s here doing a master class with the second years and doing a Q&A with you guys today. A hilariously funny standup, a writer for shows such as Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, and recently… uh, Saturday Night Live, MADtv over the summer, and the author of this book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying, which some of you have brought with you today, and it’s available to be purchased today as well, right after the talk. Right here we’ll have a table set up, you can purchase the book, get it signed, take it home. It’s a fabulous book, it’s a great book, and it’s a great book for anyone who’s aspiring to do anything in comedy, and we’re lucky enough to have the author here today. So please welcome, Carol Leifer. (applause) Check out our high-tech microphones. Carol Leifer: You like how I did that? AC: Yeah. So I guess the very first question, although it’s looked into in your book, is how you got started in comedy. You were around the age of a lot of these students. CL: Yes! I was 21 years old. Can you believe it? That I was, at one time… AC: Sure, absolutely. (laughter) CL: I can’t. It’s a little more difficult when…I just turned 60! (applause) How crazy is that? Well, my story is pretty wild, because while I’m sure, like a lot of you, I was funny in school plays and at camp and that kind of thing, I was shy.
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