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47. Malcolm Gladwell: 10,000 Hours of Jokes

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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How to Be a Successful Comedian

Comedy is all about finding the line of what is appropriate and what is inappropriate. You're reserving a huge chunk of your brain for actively monitoring when you're testing out material. It's super hard and it takes, to coin a phrase, 10,000 hours to be any good at it. The thing I... No, of course I'm not a comedian. I do give speeches.

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