On the other hand, it can be live and fresh, and some people really can do that very well. Rehearse it three or four times, even if it's just in your bedroom with a cell phone there recording.
And that's something I feel like-- we're so used to seeing everything all like-- when you see a stand up special, it's all perfectly rehearsed and everything. But I think one of the charms of going to a comedy club or going to see people is that anything can kind of happen,and that's what we wanted to do on the bus.
I remember doing master classes with people who were theatergoers, and the thing that they would always say, it was-- it pissed me off. We rehearse once, twice a week, and we'll run through the show, and I'll be a different person every time.
They have talking points. They rehearse the questions. They're very well prepared.
And then they would all go running to Lenny, and he would make them feel better, and say, let's just go around the piano and rehearse this number, and you're great, and it's all going to be OK. And he was made of love.
And so many speakers assume it's OK just to come and wing it-- a couple of bullet points, I'm good to go. Actors rehearse . Musicians rehearse . Speakers should rehearse . For a talk that matters, they absolutely should.
That's where you have to write a lot. And rehearse a lot. Because every detail will have to be perceived by the audience, understood by the audience.
And I don't need to have more than one instrument. We rehearse every day for four or five hours in the morning, and these are the kinds of things that we talk about.
So, but you can't, in a Pops rehearsal, the protocol doesn't let you raise your hand and say, "excuse me, I think we should rehearse this." You can't do that, because the conductor is in command and control. So we get to the concert that night and we're going along and we get to the point where we're going to play Pink Panther.
Remember, for those of you all that are unaware or never knew, his mother was dead. We rehearsed all day Saturday.
didn't know anything much. We rehearsed hardly, I think not even one day. We didn't rehearse because I myself landed there just one or two days before.
And when you rehearsed , were you rehearsing in English first, or did you always rehearse in Yiddish? We rehearsed in both. Joel had us going back and forth in rehearsal, so it was pretty wild, because we were learning the Yiddish and trying to retain the Yiddish and memorize the Yiddish.
and I've gotten to do a bit of capoeira and Brazilian jiu jitsu in this newest season, but jiu jitsu is more fun. Let's rehearse .
We rehearsed hardly, I think not even one day. We didn't rehearse because I myself landed there just one or two days before. And there were so many activities going around.
But I will tell you this. We will rehearse it again, and again, and again.
But I will tell you this. And what we rehearse grows.
And Dave was pretty much like, yeah, I think that is good. where we'd rehearse them, and maybe even you sometimes would be like, this is bumping me.
Did I rehearse it properly?
He goes on to rehearse some of the stations along his leg journey, the book being due out now within a few weeks.
And you rehearse it.
And they did not rehearse .
They didn't rehearse anything.
And they didn't rehearse .
So we'll rehearse it but won't put it in the show that night.
How do you rehearse ?
You can't rehearse everything, but you rehearse a lot of things.
We never did rehearse what would happen if there was a power failure.
I kept kind of doing that in my ear. And when you rehearsed , were you rehearsing in English first, or did you always rehearse in Yiddish? We rehearsed in both.
And we would rehearse a version during the day.
I remember doing master classes with people who were theatergoers, and the thing that they would always say, it was-- it pissed me off. And I got to rehearse one-on-one with everybody.
And you rehearse that story.
It's hard to rehearse .
Actors rehearse . Musicians rehearse . Speakers should rehearse . For a talk that matters, they absolutely should. Tim Urban gave an amazing talk at the last TED about procrastination.
Let's rehearse . It was Beethoven's First Symphony.
Because we usually rehearse around 4 o'clock, and then we tape at like 6:00.
work and rehearse and rehearse and you've got show after show and then it's over. Like when do you decide it's over
You have to really rehearse .
Is he just dumb? Why didn't he rehearse ? And you'd think. Okay, you forgot to rehearse .
But we rehearsed , by that time, probably over the course of eight years maybe 25 different problems.
So we rehearsed for ages to get this right.
I had actually rehearsed it.
So I prepared and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed , practice, practice, practice, and I went out there, went on stage for the first keynote,
And I rehearsed the song.
It's so rehearsed and so well thought through.
It's like we rehearsed this already.
And then we rehearsed .
And we rehearsed for about 10 minutes, and then they left.
And we rehearsed in America.
So we had rehearsed .
that's very well rehearsed .