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How We Live Now with Katherine May cover image

Angela Barnes on the continual winter of Persistent Depressive Disorder

How We Live Now with Katherine May

CHAPTER

The Importance of Hard Work in Comedy

Comedians are talented in the first place but it takes 10 years of hard work to hone that talent into something exceptional. I've made comedy look like hard work and they were not good nights you know, he says. The trick is in concealing the hard work people think it isn't hard work because they watch it and it's just a person talking on a stage or it's just some words in a book. You need polish and control and skill and experience like that which cannot be learned from watching someone do their thing for five minutes.

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