My efforts to record myself doing comedy, especially in these early trial phases, have yielded interesting results.
As a caricature of myself, I am more interesting with a bad temper. I am part Italian, so it makes sense. However, I noticed many of my jokes poke fun at stereotypes people may not know exist among people groups I belong to.
I wore a suit in my first run. It was disasterous, I was too stuffy, the delivery was bad. Luckily the lighting and camera angle was off so I had to redo it.
The second recording session yielded better results. I took my tie off, just wearing the suit. However, I realized I looked like a mafioso, so I went with that. I didn't ham it up too much, but I had just enough of my Italian-New Yorker accent to make it funny.
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