Back to the basics
This is a "non-talk" I gave at Lugradio Live 2009.
My first ideas show I wanted to give a keynote. But it didn't go anywhere.
Then I started to write a short play, or a sketch involving several characters, and tell the story of the Kingdom of Canonical vs. Kingdom of Anger (Jono's vs. Aq's). But it was way too difficult to write and perform. Performing it alone would've been too hard, and I'd have to ask people to be on stage and perform a role without a rehearsal... Way too complicated.
So I started to write a stand-up, and tried to make it as funny as possible. Writing standups is far more difficult than I expected, but I still managed to build a 15mn-long text. It worked "fine" (one of my first jokes was followed by a deadly silence), and here it is :
- This text was the one I wrote and used for my rehearsals.
- I've used a "low-tech teleprompter" (think: a deck of file cards), but I eventually built a HTML teleprompter in case the low-tech would burn or bug.
- There's a video available on archive.org