...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
