Zen and Stand-Up Lesson 1

You Have to Get on Stage

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Lesson 1: If you want to be a standup comedian, you must perform standup comedy.

“Practice is enlightenment itself.”
— Dogen, from Shobogenzo (“Bendōwa”/“On the Endeavor of the Way”)

In my thirty years of standup comedy, the question I am most often asked is this: