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New Ranking: Are You Funny

Every beginning comedy book will give you a test to determine if you are funny. No quiz will ever tell you if you can or will be a comedian. Everyone has the capacity to be funny. Most of these tests, that determine if you’re funny, are vague and read like a poorly constructed horoscope that could apply to anyone. What you answer to each question will only tell you if you’re more likely to be a comic. Most of the time these quizzes look for dysfunction in your family. When they find that dysfunction, or signs of psychological distress, the quiz usually declares you’re fit to be a comic. Then, after hearing what you want to hear in the first page of the first chapter, you throw down your money and buy that book. All the quiz really tells you is do you fit the profile of the average comedian. Do you have enough problems to make jokes out of. The big problem with the question... [Read Entire Article]

Posted June 0, 2002 by Shayne Michael under Getting Started

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Tim Conway was born Thomas Daniel Tim Conway on December 15th, 1933 in Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Today Conway is best known as an Emmy award-winning actor and comedian primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, movies and the Carol Burnett Show. His best-known role was as Ernest Borgnine's second-in-command, Ensign Charles Parker, in the popular 1960s anti-war sitcom, McHale's Navy. Conway has been called the best second-banana in show business. Shortly after entering show business, Conway would later change his first name to Tim to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway of “The Falcon” fame. His license plate reads 13 WKS, a reference to all of his solo television projects have been cancelled after 13 weeks. Conway was Irish descent on father's side. He grew up in Chagrin Falls attending Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and majoring in speech... [Read Entire Bio]

Posted 12/09/16 by Shayne Michael under comic actor