I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, today I'm doing a topic suggested by someone on my blog.

So someone suggested that I talk about my stand-up days,

because every once in a while I've mentioned that I used to do stand-up.

And I said, oh, but the problem is I tend to talk about things that are magic-related or game-design related.

And so I said, okay, if it's a way to do stand-up and tie it into magic design, yes, there is.

And so what we'll do today is I'm going to talk about 10 lessons I learned from my days of stand-up.

And as you guys know, I have a holistic approach.

I believe what you learn in one discipline affects other disciplines.

And so I'm going to talk about how these 10 lessons of things I learned doing stand-up comedy

applied and helped me make a better game designer.

That is the plan for today.

So we're going to learn all about more than you ever wanted to know about my stand-up

days.

Okay.

So first off, let me give a little context before we get into the lessons.

So what happened was in college, I started an improvisation group.

Well, a little wider than that.

When I was at school, I went to Boston University and I was in the College of Communications. That was my college within the university.

But I joined something called Stage Troop, which was the theater organization.

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