Quotes by Ted Alexandro

Ted Alexandro

A crowd is the only way to know if something works. Telling a friend or two doesn’t matter. A crowd is what tells you what works or doesn’t, so I’d rather go in front of them cold and see.

Crowds

Matter

Two

A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn’t worry about being likeable; they’re doing something amazing that very few people can do.

People

Riding

Worry

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you’re more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Gains

Want

What Matters

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set ‘Teachers Lounge’ up.

Night

Play

Teacher

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That’s the beauty of comedy: it’s close to a pure meritocracy.

Class

People

Training

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It’s very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

Acceptance

Lenses

Talking

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

Ideas

Interesting

Talking

I don’t do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

Firsts

Mirrors

I don’t know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

Listening

Philosophy

Talking

I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now ’cause it’s so depressing. One guy told me it had been six months since he had gotten to second base with his wife. Yeah, I don’t know which one was more pathetic: that he used the phrase ‘second base’ or that he hadn’t been there in six months?

Depressing

Sex

Talking

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Acceptance

And Love

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Audience

Careers

Class

Comedian

Conversation

Crowds

Depressing

Firsts

Flow

Focus

Fun

Gains

Generations

Goal

Great Experiences

Hard Work

Ideas

Ifs

Interesting

Lenses

Liking Someone

Listening

Long

Matter

Mirrors

Names

Night

Paid

People

Philosophy

Play

Profound

Riding

Security

Sex

Skills

Sometimes

Stage

Talking

Teacher

Thinking

Training

Two

Vices

Want

What Matters

Winning

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Quotes by Ted Alexandro

Ted Alexandro

A crowd is the only way to know if something works. Telling a friend or two doesn’t matter. A crowd is what tells you what works or doesn’t, so I’d rather go in front of them cold and see.

A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn’t worry about being likeable; they’re doing something amazing that very few people can do.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you’re more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set ‘Teachers Lounge’ up.

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That’s the beauty of comedy: it’s close to a pure meritocracy.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It’s very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

I don’t do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.

I don’t know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

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