How Do You Make People Laugh When You Want To Die?

Becky Veduccio Langton
7 min readAug 22, 2021
Photo courtesy of Pixabay

You know how, when you’re getting stains out of your kid’s Paw Patrol underwear, and a casting director from a major television network calls?

“So how long have you been doing stand-up?”

How do I explain the twelve year gap on my resume? I scramble in search of a narrative. Um, I was… traveling? In a coma? In prison? Yes! Prison. People like second…

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Becky Veduccio Langton

New York Press Club Award recipient, Finalist Slackjaw’s Humor Writing Challenge 2020, stand-up comedian, joke fluffer. https://www.beckyveduccio.com.