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How It Feels To Write A Joke And Tell It On Stage

According to some of today’s busiest comedians

Jessica Delfino
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readJul 9, 2019

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By Jessica Delfino

photo by Maarten van den Heuvel / Unsplash

I always grapple with whether or not to tell someone I meet at a party that I perform stand-up comedy when the old, “What do you do?” question inevitably comes up. If I admit it, they’re either extremely excited or…

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I write about life with 1 husband, 2 kids, 1 cat, sometimes funny. Instagram.com/JessicaDelfino Bylines: TheNew Yorker, The NY Times, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s.