‘And Then What Happens?’ (Part I)
Follow the journeys of 10 storytellers as they hone their craft onstage at Timonium’s joke house.
Storytelling has been around since the first guy said to another guy as they sat around a fire, “Hey I just killed a saber-toothed tiger, wanna hear about it?” That’s how Marc Unger put it, at Magooby’s Joke House in Timonium, where the nationally headlined comedian is teaching a five-week seminar called “The Art of Comedic Storytelling.” “One of the things you learn how to do in effective storytelling is, and then what happens, and then what happens, and then what happens," said Unger, describing how to hold an audience. Approaching the eons-old craft with the intensity of that long-ago hunter, Unger went for the soul of the students almost immediately. In an opening exercise, he challenged them to improvise a short speech using whatever …
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