5 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2024
  2. Aug 2023
  3. May 2022
    1. seemed surprised that I’ve kept all these notes. I don’tunderstand why they think that. I don’t understand why I’vekept anything else. What could possibly be of more value?

      Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, arguably the most influential comedian of his generation, wrote in his book Is This Anything?:

      Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old- school accordion folders . . . A lot of people I’ve talked to

      link to other comedian practices: This one is most similar to George Carlin perhaps, though not as zany. Also similar to Adam Sandler, though he uses spiral bound notebooks.

    Tags

    Annotators