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Liebman, who won the 1997 American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up, is lauded for her deadpan style of joke-telling. After talking for a moment about something, she delivers the one-line joke. The audience laughs. She delivers a shorter, sharper, even funnier line. The audience roars. She looks out at the crowd with surprise and shock, as if she's wondering how on earth that outrageous comment could have come from her mouth. And the audience loves...
...been doing stand-up for, about how long...
...feminine. I don't know what you can make of that. I've been doing this thing called the Alexander technique. Have you ever heard of that? It's an alignment of the spine, and I've been doing it for almost three years. So since I started doing stand-up, I've literally learned how to stand up. I think the audience is more responsive when I'm standing like that. It's a very old technique. John Dewey, the educator, was a prophetizer of it. It's getting a little more popular now. It's not new-agey...
...always want to be in stand...
...doesn't like being popular?" he asks. "Some people are not especially interested, so it is a challenge to make it more engaging." His technique seems effective; students know Kirshner for his stand-up routine as much as for his expertise...