Monday, January 19, 2009

Jokes about Storytellers

The other night I caught the very beginning of a Seinfeld show. In the early days the show always began with a stand up bit from Jerry. In this particular routine Jerry was commenting on some differences between the male and females brains. He was suggesting that it was genetically programmed that men would use the remote and continuously flip through channels, barely stopping long enough to see what was on. Women on the other hand would stop at each channel and check out what the programming was all about.

This got him thinking what life must have been like back in the day when STORYTELLERS were the main form of entertainment. He imagined the King would have 30 different tellers line up, the first would start a story and when the King had heard enough he would yell next and the second would start. The King would continue this rapid fire "next" moving through all the tellers and circling back again. Very Funny!

Friday, January 2, 2009

An interesting blog on Storytelling

A while ago I was asked by Katharine Hansen to answer a few questions on storytelling for her website. I answered the questions and then started following some of the responses she posted from other story professionals. The artilces are intersting and informative. If you are truly interested in the uses and importance of story in the 21st century I suggest you check out the following link
http://astoriedcareer.com.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Happy New Year. A new year to collect more stories.