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What a fast pace month May was, with the cartoon-a-thon for Mental Health Heroes and this month the 2013 DBSA conference where I’ve been asked to draw more caricatures… And I’ve been invited to a very special event, too.  More about that later.  Right now, I’m getting ready for the DBSA Comedy night.  It will be my 3rd time doing the Stand-Up for Mental Health show and this year I’m testing out new materiel.  Although I write and draw cartoons daily, it’s nothing like stand-up comedy.

To get me ready for going on stage, I thought I would ask an old high school buddy for some tips. I went to school with Dave Russo, winner of  the Boston Comedy Festival and featured on “Comics Come Home with Denis Leary,”  runner up on the E! TV series “The Entertainer” with Wayne Newton, USO shows nationwide, and can be seen weekly as co-host of NESN’s “Dirty Water TV.” So I thought I would reach out to Dave Russo since he knows a thing or two about stand-up and to get some good comedy gold tips.

I asked:

“Dave, I’m about to start writing jokes for my 3rd attempt at stand-up for Stand Up For Mental Health program. I’ll be at the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance conference… Do you have advice you could share with me?”

He gave me the best advice:

“Who are you and how the (#@%) did you get my personal number?”

It took some explaining who I was and eventually he started to believe he remembered me or he just wanted me to stop calling him every morning at 3:AM… He did give me this good advice:

“Who ever YOU ARE off stage WITH your friends and family is the same person YOU should BE on stage. Talk about what YOU know and who YOU ARE.  Take your time smile be confident! Display confidence 1 st impressions are very IMPORTANT.

I tried calling him at 4:AM this morning to thank him but oddly his number was disconnected.

Good thing I can still find Dave Russo on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

 

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    Last reviewed: 6 Jun 2013