The Business of Making Fun | Maureen Langan | TEDxNavesink
Comedy in America has become a business that values young and hot over substance. Maureen traveled halfway around the world to perform stand-up and found an audience that instead valued authenticity. The lessons she learned will inspire you and may have you floating out of your seat.
Maureen Langan is a standup comic and radio talk show host. She is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked for Bloomberg TV & Radio and public television before turning to the stage. She has performed on Broadway with Rosie O’Donnell and opened for Joy Behar, Steven Wright and Dennis Miller.
Maureen performs around the country and world and has been featured in festivals in the U.S., South Africa, Ireland, the UK, Switzerland, and Canada.
She has appeared on Gotham Live, HBO, CBS, HLN, and FOX (sorry).
Maureen was raised in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, where there is no lake.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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A brilliant speech Maureen...and everything you said is so true. You deserved a much better audience to be listening to this important speech.
Please watch all of her comedy vids on DRY BAR. She's so intelligently hilarious.
I haven't laughed at a comedian in years, but you deliver truth with humor! Love you, lady!
So true of what our society values. She is also hilarious.
I love her comedy and she is so good at it.
She is amazing. She is smart. She is talented.
So very talented. So very funny. So honest. Love this!
@Dancestar1981
Жыл бұрын
So true all of it women undervalued especially Neurodiverse women and Neurodiverse Celtic Christian Women
@Dancestar1981
Жыл бұрын
And those over40
Speaking to us even today you’re the best
I just discovered Maureen in the last couple of days. I think she’s great. I can’t think of another female comedian who is funnier. Thanks Maureen I will share your videos.
Excellent - great job! I just shared this with the comedians in my online workshop. Keep laughing!
So proud of you this is awesome
Maureen Langan keeps getting better and better. Her FULL set on Dry Bar is fantastic. Check it out...
@14779steve
9 ай бұрын
It is awesome.
She just appeared on AMerica's Got Talent. Did great.
Sadly enough, life in South Africa is not that good anymore in 2022. Maureen is such a wonderful person though. I just learned about her and I can't get enough of her shows. She's just amazing.
@maureenlangan
Жыл бұрын
It makes me sad knowing this. Hopefully, one day…
She's so funny
Brilliant that they gave her a Ted talk. I feel her pain.
Thank you,
A beautiful soul!
You are a very funny cool lady. I love your comedy and your thoughts.
Great talk Maureen. Looking forward to meeting you.
Age matters only for women not for men. Thats why carlin was still going in his 70s
Thank you for speaking up (even though I ended the sentence with a preposition).
@maureenlangan
Жыл бұрын
You are so funny! I always feel awkward when I end a sentence with a preposition, but we have to talk like human beings
Your message is so on point - timeless really. Thank you!
Terrific statements love it
OH Maureen, will you please come back to South Africa. I've just now found your comedy; binge watching my favourite comedy Auntie. Did I get the semi-colon right?
All the million people that have seen her here were so high hovering that they forgot to give a like
@maureenlangan
Жыл бұрын
Damn right! Where’s the hovering.
I hope this video goes viral.
@maureenlangan
Жыл бұрын
That would be most wonderful
I love her! Watched her show on Dry Bar! And I love Carol Barnett and George would of hated this generation! And Lucy's Ball, the famouse I Love Lucy did was she wanted she was like Carol Barnett
💜
Imagine her as a marriage counselor? 😉
@maureenlangan
Жыл бұрын
I help people! Lol. Can you imagine
They don't make them like that anymore
She was great. Sadly speaking to a dead audience.
She's really angry about ageing. Seems like she was a good girl in her youth who got the short deal.
@everymp
Жыл бұрын
Your comment is part of the problem addressed in this video. No, she isn't angry, or "really angry". There is no better person to shed light on any problem than the people directly affected by it. Sarcasm isn't anger.
@joannaedwards6325
Жыл бұрын
iamnormal8648 Please grow up and get a sense of humor you poor thing.
@toolate9494
Жыл бұрын
How did you conclude her comments to be angry? They were stated with levity; maybe this is something you need to address. I used a semi colon for the fun 😊