Here's one of my favs along with a bit of talk show intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ52...k9wjZI&index=1

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We tend to post performances that are song-related (myself included) but I was hoping more for theatrical/stage performances — Like this one you posted, Julie. It triggered the thought of an old favorite of mine, David Sedaris, who did a reading once in clown face.

It includes one of my favorite David Sedaris quotes in the introduction. In response to an admirer who said to him once, "You are a lot nicer than I thought you would be based on your books", Sedaris replied, "Oh I'm not nice. Just two-faced."

https://youtu.be/nqGy-OzJpmc?si=RsPjWvPeRRXEq0FK

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More comedy. Here is Stewart Lee. (Voted 41st best standup. Not bad for someone who doesn't do jokes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEjt...annel=JimmyLee

Here's a slam poetry winner from years ago that I like to revisit from time to time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LYOTATI4TY

This is partly for Roger, ha. Dylan is far from perfect, but this is. (I'm still more likely to attend a Neil Young concert.)

https://youtu.be/xCipKmyngLY?si=c_o026BUlrUF3-w2

Gene Hackman, in what I'd like to call the last western. I was never a fan, then Clint Eastwood surprised me.

https://youtu.be/0vscLrMD_qY?si=2VrLGyPuwLQe1Por

Jim, Wow! That Melanie clip is fantastic!

We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each others wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace



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Hi Jim, that exact verse is when a few tears kick in nearly every time I hear this. This thread is great. It's like getting actually well-selected feeds from a search site. I also am getting an introduction from these clips to things I've completely missed over the years.

Here is the online launch of Caroline Bird’s selected poems “Rookie”. Funny, fizzing, frank, and another word beginning with an f that may mean heartbreaking. Hard to feel anything but buoyed after listening to her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJWm...=CarcanetPress

Caroline's readings begin at 3:30

This is proof of how silly it is when Angelina is instantly compared to Amy Winehouse. She sings with none of Winehouse's nasal sound and has a deeper voice with a vibrato and depth much more reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, or Billie Holiday when she goes higher (like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLtZQ3sIwE.) I guess it's the hair that blinds everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n13XcVdQr8