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View submission: I am Norm Macdonald, AMA.
How do you tell a story? Does it come naturally for you or do you have some guidelines?
Comment by ImNormMacdonald at 13/05/2014 at 01:08 UTC
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Well, I know how you DON'T tell a story saying the ending part first, because that's what my mother does all the time, and that's what people sometimes do in the audience, where they'll yell out "DO the joke where the thing at the end happens?!"
You know how they always say a story has to have a beginning, middle and an end?
Well, I find that if you have a beginning and an end, you don't really need a middle. Why waste time with a middle? Who ever goes "You know what part of the movie I liked? The middle.. That long part between the beginning and the end." That is no one's favorite part. Although I worked on the Middle and it was a fine show.