{"id":3858,"date":"2018-06-13T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:53:04","slug":"stand-up-virgin-by-stuart-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/stand-up-virgin-by-stuart-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-up virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>A friend once said to me: \u201cYou\u2019re really funny. You should be a stand-up comedian.\u201d Many of us have had the experience of making a group of friends laugh down the pub. Or, if you\u2019re middle-aged like me, at a friend\u2019s house for a dinner party \u2013 where laughter can become infectious, particularly if the red wine is flowing. It\u2019s one thing having a laugh with your friends but making a group of complete strangers laugh for five minutes is another matter entirely...<\/p>\n<p>I have always been fascinated by comedy. I grew up watching Tommy Cooper, Spike Milligan and Les Dawson. The more ridiculous they were, the more I laughed \u2013 children laugh around three times more often than adults. I loved silly jokes like \u201cI went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite\u201d (Les Dawson).<\/p>\n<p>I run my own brand and graphic design business, so I\u2019m no stranger to being creative and presenting my ideas to clients. I have, on occasion, also led services in my church. But I wanted to ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once said to me: \u201cYou\u2019re really funny. You should be a stand-up comedian.\u201d Many of us have had the experience of making a group of friends laugh down the pub. Or, if you\u2019re middle-aged like me, at a friend\u2019s house for a dinner party \u2013 where laughter can become infectious, particularly if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[404,606,1152,1153,1154,1155,1156,1157,1158,1159,1160,1161,1162,1163],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-funny","tag-greg-davies","tag-les-dawson","tag-logan-murry-comedy-course","tag-racism","tag-rhod-gilbert","tag-sex","tag-spike-milligan","tag-stuart-smith","tag-tommy-cooper","tag-tony-vino","tag-virgin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7584,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/7584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}