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Leighann Lord is a standup comedian, author, 
and creator of the People with Parents Podcast. 
Her humor books and comedy albums 
​are available on Amazon and iTunes.


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Show Them Who You Are

12/6/2020

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Well, I’ll go on ahead and tell on myself.

I broke one of my own cardinal rules of comedy: I brought notes on-stage. 

I've been anti note my entire career. Urging colleagues and students to instead assiduously prepare in advance, go on stage, and be present in the moment, come what may. But thanks to the pandemic, I can count the number of live shows I’ve done this year. I’ll round it up to not enough. That contributed to me feeling rusty, and like I needed a back up. My set list.

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My Set Book And the Importance of Capturing Your Ideas

12/3/2020

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A comedian’s set book is like an athlete’s playbook; a singer’s songbook; a painter’s sketchbook.  My Set Book began as hand-written notes on index cards, then in marble notebooks, then on loose leaf, and today is a 200 plus-page Word document (with a 26-page table of contents) that when printed on double-sided, three-hole punched paper goes to live in My Big Red Binder. A Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote on the cover says:
 
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”

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