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Comicon Monologue

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There is a 0.0126 percent chance you know who the people in that photograph are. That’s the real percentage, I did the math. I’m sure you have a person you look up to that others don’t know. Everybody has people like that, those that are to others meaningless, but to you the most important figures in the world. They are one of mine.

I’m in eighth grade, it’s April. I’m watching the Nostalgia Critic’s newest Youtube video. I always watch the day it comes releases, which I know is on a Tuesday. The video ends, credits roll, but then Doug Walker, the man behind the character shows up. He says he’s going to Comicon? I go to Chicago Comic Con every year, do I always just walk right by him? This time will definitely be different. A few weeks later, it finally arrives. My dad and I drive an hour down to Chicago: it’s 8 am, we’re both tired, the parking’s impossible to find, but I’m excited as can …show more content…

In fact, I have no idea what my personality would be if I didn’t have people like them to teach me timing, inflection, and remembering that comedy always comes in three. You don’t learn how to communicate with a Kindergarten class, you learn from the media you consume. I remember being a child and always getting in trouble for reciting whatever random out of context joke I had heard the night before. I didn’t know what made it funny, nor why saying it to someone without any reason to made it unfunny. All I knew was that I enjoyed it, and wanted others to enjoy it, too. Now that I’m older, I look back and think “Why did I ever say those things, I wasn’t funny, I was just telling funny jokes I had heard to people who didn’t want to hear them.” But I’m still doing it now! I still make jokes from whatever stand-up act I’ve just seen, or a Youtube clip I’ve just watched, an Onion article I’ve just read. You can’t escape influence, so you may as well accept its part in human

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