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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Power of Shop Talk

The structure of a joke is very much like the structure of a magic trick. Steve Martin once said to me kind of, Dorely, you know why? Because it's the easiest form of show business. When I was 10, developed a magic act where I figured out how to make a cake in a hat. So many first-rate comic actors began as magicians. Woody Allen's first efforts were all in magic, yours were.

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