Chris Duffy
speaker
220 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Chris Duffy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Always got to wait for the bus.
Offer an observation.
Offer an opinion.
A classic doorknob is like, the best soup is lentil soup.
That demands a response from people.
They're either going to agree or they're going to say, you think lentil soup is the best soup?
So you can offer something like that that will allow them to respond.
It's something that people are always really interested in is the concept of bombing.
And I get why it's dramatic.
It's kind of a worst fear.
And for me, I mean, when it has happened over the course of my career and it has happened many, many times, I have handled it badly in so many ways.
Often the worst way is to kind of acknowledge it too much to say, oh, this is not going well, because then the audience, you lose them because they're like, oh, you're not in control.
I thought you were in control.
Maybe this was intentional.
Or to a lot of times people will say like, you're a terrible audience or like, and you know, you make a joke about oranges and they go, oh, everyone hates oranges here.
And it's like, no, people just hated your joke about oranges.
I think turning it against them or acknowledging it, which is kind of turning it against yourself, is often the biggest mistake.
And instead, I think of it as just information, right?
How can you use this as information about what the room is feeling or thinking or what you're missing that you could then provide them?
My friend, the comedian Mike Kaplan, has what I think is the best possible response to this, which is he says,
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