It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

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Audience Bites Casting Feeling Few Fishing Getting Hook Laughing Like Lines Little More Out Start Them Then Whole You

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