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[insert Nick Mullen quote]. Not many of them I can easily repeat on Orange site
Are you being racist? Is this an in-joke I don't get? What's up here?
My favorite example is Jack Point from Yeomen of the Guard [0]: Point: Oh, thoughtless crew! Ye know not what ye do! Attend to me, and shed a tear or two — For I have a song to sing, O! All: Sing me your song, O! Point: It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng, O! It's a song of a merryman, moping mum, Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, Who sipped no sup, and who craved…
The dialogue is useful context for the song in which the jester explains to a would-be jester the troubles of being paid to be funny.
Gilbert enjoyed a spot of paradox, some more patent than others. In The Pirates of Penzance a leap year forms a paradox (, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox) as the protagonist has lived for twenty-one years, yet reckoning by his natal day he is a little boy of five. As for Patience, it is subtitled “or, Bunthorne’s Bride”, yet ends with everyone except Bunthorne scheduled to be married.
There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
Being shy doesn't mean you are silent. It means you have to use energy and courage to break that silence. So while most people would say someone who doesn't dare to talk is shy, it is totally possible to still be shy and be the life of the party. As an introvert who has zero stage fright and good talking skills: I am still an introvert. Being around people costs me energy, while for extroverts not being around people…
Lol, now you can't even be funny in peace... If you're too funny, you might be diagnosed as depressed... smh. Tough crowd. :p
Professional comedians are…. Well known to have issues. It’s not a type of direction someone takes if they’re able to get what they need from a normal life. Just being funny != being a professional comedian.
Lol, now you can't even be funny in peace... If you're too funny, you might be diagnosed as depressed... smh. Tough crowd. :p
Professional comedians are…. Well known to have issues. It’s not a type of direction someone takes if they’re able to get what they need from a normal life. Just being funny != being a professional comedian.
Then again I understand that being compelled to trigger something in someone all the time (laughter) can be pretty demanding. That's also an internal work of the mind and how to deal with one's thoughts and emotions, it doesn't have to be so stressful.
My favorite example is Jack Point from Yeomen of the Guard [0]: Point: Oh, thoughtless crew! Ye know not what ye do! Attend to me, and shed a tear or two — For I have a song to sing, O! All: Sing me your song, O! Point: It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng, O! It's a song of a merryman, moping mum, Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum, Who sipped no sup, and who craved…
Better shown, I think, by Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon and the preceding dialogue, back near the start of Act II. https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/web_opera/yeomen_13d.html for the dialogue and https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/web_opera/yeomen_14.html for the song. (PDF of the entire libretti, which I find much more convenient: https://gsarchive.net/yeomen/yg_lib.pdf#page=28&zoom=auto,-1... .) The dialogue i…
But ultimately the "Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum," line in I have a song to sing O! and its reprise in the finale was what led me to pick that song to quote here. (Plus that song and the music is probably my favorite among the G&S canon. :-)
There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
If I remember correctly, he felt as an organiser, he already had a reason to talk to guests and as an organiser he always had an excuse to leave a conversation, which are basically two very common fears of an introverts who still wants social interaction.
Lol, now you can't even be funny in peace... If you're too funny, you might be diagnosed as depressed... smh. Tough crowd. :p
Professional comedians are…. Well known to have issues. It’s not a type of direction someone takes if they’re able to get what they need from a normal life. Just being funny != being a professional comedian.
Comedians do a job that allows for more exposure of it.
The broader brushes plausably cover the data for me.