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Final Word About Honing
I know I already said there are no rules but, just to hammer this point home...
A comedy friend of mine used to phone me up on Friday afternoons and tell me
the new jokes he’d written. They would sound like utter rubbish to me and the
first few times I’d hint that maybe they needed a bit more work. But then I’d see
him on stage with that same material getting enormous laughs. Suddenly I could
see the funniness, the timing, the big personality and it all came alive. So after
that, when I got my Friday afternoon phone calls I would listen to the jokes and
say, ‘well I bet you can make it work!’
So, never forget the first rule of honing.
There are no rules!
There  is  no  other  true  judge  of  your  work  than  the  audience  and  they  can  be
fickle.  So  plough  your  own  furrow,  follow  your  dream,  try  it  this  way,  or  that
way, work hard and keep at it.

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