Day 107: Open-Mic Advice From a Stranger
In the queue for a late-night open-mic comedy night in Hongdae, a young woman (A) quietly rehearsing her first stand-up set is overheard by the woman ahead of her (B), a veteran comic.
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Dialogue
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A '์ ๋ ์์ฆ ๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์ธ๋ฐ์, ๋ค์ด์ดํธ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ์๋...' ์, ์ฃ์กํด์. ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ํฌ๊ฒ ์ค์ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋์?
'Jeoneun yojeum daieoteu jungindeyo, daieoteuraneun mari wollae...' a, joesonghaeyo. Jega neomu keuge jungeolgeoryeonnayo?
'So I'm on a diet these days, and the word diet originally...' Oh, sorry. Was I muttering too loudly?
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B ์๋์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์์. ์ค๋ ์ฒ์ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ์๋ ๋ด์? ๋๋ณธ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋๊น์.
Aniyo, gwaenchanayo. Oneul cheoeum ollagasina bwayo? Daeboneul geureoke kkwak jwigo gyesin geol bonikkayo.
No, it's fine. Is tonight your first time going up? Judging by how tightly you're holding that script.
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A ํฐ ๋์? ์ค๋์ด ์ฒซ ๋ฌด๋์์. ์ค ๋ถ ๋์ ํด์ผ ํ๋๋ฐ ๋ฒ์จ ์์ ๋์ด ๋์.
Ti nayo? Oneuri cheot mudaeyeyo. O bun dongan haeya haneunde beolsseo sone ttami nayo.
Is it that obvious? Tonight's my first time on stage. I have to do five minutes, and my hands are already sweating.
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B ์ ๋ ์ด ๋ฌด๋์ ์ ์ง ์ญ ๋ ๋์ด์. ๊ด์ฐฎ์ผ๋ฉด ์ฒซ ๋๋ด๋ง ํ๋ฒ ๋ค์ด ๋ด๋ ๋ ๊น์? ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋๊ตฌ ์์์ ํ ๋ฒ ํด ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ ์ข๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
Jeoneun i mudaee seon ji sip nyeon dwaesseoyo. Gwaenchaneumyeon cheot nongdamman hanbeon deureo bwado doelkkayo? Ollagagi jeone nugu apeseo han beon hae boneun ge jokeodeunyo.
I've been getting up on this stage for ten years. If you don't mind, could I hear just your first joke? It helps to try it in front of someone once before you go up.
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A ์ ๋ง์? ๊ทธ๋ผ... '์ ๋ ์์ฆ ๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์ธ๋ฐ์. ๋ค์ด์ดํธ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ด ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ด๋ก ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ป์ด๋์. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ์ ๋ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ์ค์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ ๊ตถ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์.'
Jeongmaryo? Geureom... 'jeoneun yojeum daieoteu jungindeyo. Daieoteuraneun mari wollae geuriseueoro saenghwal bangsigiraneun tteusiraeyo. Geureonikka jeoneun saenghwal bangsigeul bakkuneun jungigo, geu bangsigiran gumneun geoyeyo.'
Really? Then... 'So I'm on a diet these days. Apparently the word diet comes from the Greek for way of life. So I'm changing my way of life, and that way of life is starving.'
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B ์. ์๊ธด ๊ฑด ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ๋ง๋์ธ๋ฐ, ์๋๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๊ธธ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ด ๋์ฌ ๋์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ์ฒญ์ค ๋ฐ์ ๋ฒ์จ ํด๋ํฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ด์.
Eum. Utgin geon majimak hanmadiinde, seoduga neomu gireoyo. Geuriseueo naol ttaejjeumimyeon cheongjung baneun beolsseo hyudaepon bogo isseoyo.
Hmm. The funny part is the very last bit, but the lead-in is far too long. By the time you get to Greek, half the audience is already on their phones.
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A ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ ์ผ ๋๋ํด ๋ณด์ด๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ธ๋ฐ์.
Geuriseueo bubuni jeil ttokttokae boineun bubunindeyo.
But the Greek bit is the part that makes me look smartest.
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B ๋ฌด๋์์ ๋๋ํด ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฑด ์๋ฌด ์์ฉ์ด ์์ด์. ์์ ์ธ ์ค๋ง ๋นผ๋ฉด ์ข์ผ๋ จ๋ง, ์ฒ์ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ค ์ค๋ช ๋ถํฐ ํ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์.
Mudaeeseo ttokttokae boineun geon amu soyongi eopseoyo. Ape se julman ppaemyeon joeuryeonman, cheoeum haneun saramdeureun da seolmyeongbuteo hadeoragoyo.
Looking smart on stage is no use at all. If only you'd cut the first three lines, but first-timers always start by explaining.
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A ์ธ ์ค์ ๋นผ๋ฉด ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋จ์์? '๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ตถ๋ ์ค์ด์์'?
Se jureul ppaemyeon mwoga namayo? 'Daieoteu junginde, gumneun jungieyo'?
If I cut three lines, what's left? 'I'm on a diet, which means I'm starving'?
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B ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ ํ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. '๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์ด์์.' ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฒญ์ค์ ๋ณด๋ฉด์ ์ ๊น ์ฌ์๋ค๊ฐ '...์ดํ์งธ.' ํด ๋ด์.
Geuge anira han bakja swineun geoyeyo. 'Daieoteu jungieyo.' Geurigo cheongjungeul bomyeonseo jamkkan swieotdaga '...iteuljjae.' Hae bwayo.
No, you pause for a beat. 'I'm on a diet.' Then look at the audience, hold it for a moment, and go, '...day two.' Try it.
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A ๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์ด์์... ์ดํ์งธ. ์, ์ด๊ฒ ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ค์. ์์ฃ ?
Daieoteu jungieyo... iteuljjae. Wa, ige deo utgineyo. Waejyo?
I'm on a diet... day two. Wow, that's funnier. Why?
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B ๊ด๊ฐ์ด ์ค์ค๋ก ์์์ฑ๊ฒ ๋๋๊น์. ์ฝ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ฌ๋ฏธ๋ ์ค๋ช ์ด ์๋๋ผ ๊ทธ ํ์์ ์์ด์. ๋ค์ ๊ฑฐ ํด ๋ด์.
Gwangaegi seuseuro arachaege dunikkayo. Komidiui myomineun seolmyeongi anira geu teumsaee isseoyo. Daeum geo hae bwayo.
Because you let the audience work it out for themselves. The magic of comedy isn't in the explaining, it's in the gap. Do the next one.
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A '์ ํฌ ์๋ง๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค๋๊น ๊ฐ๊ทธ๋งจ ์ํ์ ์ธ์ ๋ณด๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ์ผ์ธ์. ์๋ง, ์์ฆ์ ์ํ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ค๋์ ์ด์์.'
'Jeohui eommaneun jega gaegeureul handanikka gaegeumaen siheomeun eonje bonyago mureuseyo. Eomma, yojeumeun siheomi anira odisyeonieyo.'
'When I told my mom I do comedy, she asked when the comedian exam is. Mom, these days it's not exams, it's auditions.'
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B ์ ๊น๋ง์, ๊ทธ ๋๋ด ์ด๋์ ๋ค์๋๊ฐ์... ์, ๋ช ๋ ์ ์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฐ๊ทธ๋งจ์ด ๋ฐฉ์ก์์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋๊ฐ์ด ํ์ด์. ๋ชจ๋ฅด์ จ์ด์?
Jamkkanmanyo, geu nongdam eodiseo deureotdeongayo... a, myeot nyeon jeone eotteon gaegeumaeni bangsongeseo geoui ttokgachi haesseoyo. Moreusyeosseoyo?
Hang on, where have I heard that joke... Ah, a few years ago a comedian did almost exactly that on TV. Didn't you know?
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A ์ง์ง์? ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์ง์ง ์ ํฌ ์๋ง ์๊ธฐ์ธ๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ด๊ฒ๋ ๋นผ์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค์. ์ด์ ๋จ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ด์.
Jinjjayo? Geugeo jinjja jeohui eomma yaegiindeyo. Geureom igeotdo ppaeyagenneyo. Ije nameun ge geoui eopseoyo.
Really? It really is about my mom... Then I'll have to cut that too. There's almost nothing left.
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B ๋จ์ ๊ฒ ์์ ๋ ์ง์ง ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์์. ์์ฆ ์ ์ผ ์ฐฝํผํ๋ ์ผ์ด ๋ญ์์? ์๋ฌด๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฑธ๋ก์.
Nameun ge eopseul ttae jinjja iyagiga nawayo. Yojeum jeil changpihaetdeon iri mwoyeyo? Amudo moreuneun geolloyo.
When there's nothing left, that's when the real stories come out. What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you lately? Something nobody knows.
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A ์... ์ง๋์ฃผ์ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ ์์ผ ์ผ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ฒฝ ์ธ ์์ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ค ๋จน์ด ์น์ ์ด์. ๋ค์ด์ดํธ ์ค์์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธํํ ๋ ๊ณ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋จน์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ด์.
Eum... jinanjue rummeiteu saengil keikeureul saebyeok se sie jega da meogeo chiwosseoyo. Daieoteu jungeyo. Geurigo rummeiteuhanteneun goyangiga meogeotdago haesseoyo.
Um... last week, at three in the morning, I polished off my roommate's whole birthday cake. While on my diet. And I told her the cat ate it.
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B ์ ๊น, ์ง์ ๊ณ ์์ด๊ฐ ์๊ธด ํด์?
Jamkkan, jibe goyangiga itgin haeyo?
Wait, do you even have a cat?
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A ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ๊ฐ ์์ง๋ ๋๋ค ๊ณ ์์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฌํ๋ฉด์ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ ๊ผญ ๋ซ๊ณ ์์.
Eopseoyo. Geuraeseo rummeiteuga ajikdo dongne goyangireul uisimhamyeonseo changmuneul kkok datgo jayo.
No. So my roommate still sleeps with the window shut tight, suspecting the neighbourhood cats.
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B ํํํ! ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ์์. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์ฒซ ๋๋ด์ผ๋ก ํ์ธ์. ๋ค์ด์ดํธ, ์ดํ์งธ, ์ผ์ดํฌ ํ ํ, ์๋ ๊ณ ์์ด. ๋ฑ ์ด ์์๋ก์.
Hahaha! Geugeoyeyo. Geugeol cheot nongdameuro haseyo. Daieoteu, iteuljjae, keikeu han pan, eomneun goyangi. Ttak i sunseoroyo.
Ha ha ha! That's it. Make that your opener. Diet, day two, a whole cake, a cat that doesn't exist. Exactly in that order.
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A ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ด๊ฑธ ๋ฌด๋์์ ๋งํ๋ฉด ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ๊ฐ ์๊ฒ ๋์์์. ๊ฑ๋ ์ค๋ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์ค๋๋ฐ์.
Geunde igeol mudaeeseo malhamyeon rummeiteuga alge doejanayo. Gyaedo oneul boreo oneundeyo.
But if I say this on stage, my roommate will find out. She's coming to watch tonight.
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B ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ ์ข์ฃ . ๊ฐ์์์ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๋น๋ช ์ ์ง๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ฒญ์ค ํธ์์ ๋ฐ ๋์ ๋น์์ด์์.
Geureom deo jochyo. Gaekseogeseo rummeiteuga bimyeongeul jireumyeon cheongjung hoeungeun tta noeun dangsangieyo.
Even better. If your roommate screams from the audience, the crowd is guaranteed to love it.
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A ๋ฌด์ญ์ง๋ง ํด ๋ณผ๊ฒ์. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์ค๋ ๋ช ๋ฒ์งธ ์์์ธ์? ์ ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ผ์ ๊ด๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ง์ณ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
Museopjiman hae bolgeyo. Geunde seonbaenimeun oneul myeot beonjjae sunseoseyo? Jeoneun yeoldu beonjjaeraseo gwangaekdeuri jichyeo isseul geot gatayo.
It's scary, but I'll try. So what number are you on tonight? I'm twelfth, so I think the audience will be worn out by then.
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B ์ ๋ ์์๊ฐ ์์ด์. ์ค๋ ์ฌํ์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ๋ค์ ๊ฑธ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ก ์ฌ๋ ค๋ ๋๊ฒ ๋๋ฐ์? ๊ด๊ฐ์ด ์์ง ์ฉ์ฉํ ๋์.
Jeoneun sunseoga eopseoyo. Oneul sahoejageodeunyo. Banggeum deureun geollo bomyeon se beonjjaero ollyeodo doegenneundeyo? Gwangaegi ajik ssaengssaenghal ttaeyo.
I don't have a slot. I'm hosting tonight. From what I've just heard, I could move you up to third. While the audience is still fresh.
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A ๋ค? ์ฌํ์์ จ์ด์? ๊ทธ๋ผ ์๊น ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ ๋ค ์์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ผ๋, ์์ ๋์ด ๋ ๋ฐฐ๋ก ๋๋ค์.
Ne? Sahoejasyeosseoyo? Geureom akka Geuriseueo yaegineun da ijeo juseyo. Se beonjjaerani, sone ttami du baero naneyo.
What? You're the host? Then please forget everything I said about the Greek. Third? Now my hands are sweating twice as much.
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