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Shannon Fiedler THE BEST OF TIKTOK BY ADAM KLUGER
Why comedy? A: I’ve always been a performer, I acted as a kid, I worked a little bit I was a figure skater for many years...I was a dancer I did a lot of theater in college so I always had this sort of performing element in who I was...there’s never been a spotlight I didn’t like. After college, I really started to gravitate toward writing and creating instead of just taking someone else’s words and performing them. I started to want to write my own content and put my own thoughts into the world. I sort of stumbled onto stand-up and I was like “oh! this is perfect!” I’ve always loved to make people laugh How have you been able to come up with so many characters? A: Being able to mimic is a study in observation. Mimicry for comedy is finding the smallest element or the sort of unthought-of truth and blowing that up and making it larger than life. To me, that’s where the comedy comes from by being able to say, for example, this New York City woman will have her eyes dart to her phone every three seconds because she wants to check
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