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Comedians get better after a bad night because whatever happens to them becomes stories for the next set. Trevor Noah tries new things knowing they'll either work or give him comedy. Massimo Bottura turned a dropped lemon tart into one of his signature desserts.
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Comedians get better after a bad night because whatever happens to them becomes stories for the next set. Trevor Noah tries new things knowing they'll either work or give him comedy. Massimo Bottura turned a dropped lemon tart into one of his signature desserts.
Featuring: Trevor Noah, Esther Perel, Massimo Bottura, Takahiko Kondo, Carrie Fisher
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Chapters:
(00:00) Why a bad night makes a comedian better
(00:18) Trevor Noah and Esther Perel's question cards
(00:32) Takahiko Kondo drops a lemon tart
(00:47) Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart
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For years I've thought about how a bad night makes a comedian better.
Whatever happens to them, good or bad, becomes stories for the next set. That makes comedians antifragile. They get stronger from what goes wrong.
The couples therapist Esther Perel was a guest on Trevor Noah's podcast. She offered him questions from her card deck to get the audience at his shows talking to each other.
He said he'd try it: "it will either work or I will get comedy from it."
Takahiko Kondo was the pastry chef at Massimo Bottura's restaurant in Italy. One night in 2012 he dropped a lemon tart near the end of service.
Bottura told Kondo the broken tart was beautiful, then rebuilt it on a fresh plate the way it fell.
Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart became one of the signature desserts at the restaurant, served on a plate made to look cracked.
How can you turn a loss into a lesson?