{"id":695,"date":"2010-10-21T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/?p=695"},"modified":"2010-11-12T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T16:30:59","slug":"ever-wonder-why-im-so-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Ever wonder why I&#8217;m so funny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/avatarSherp2009.jpg' class='post_avatar no-rate avatar-80 avatar-default' height='80' width='80' style='width: 80px; height: 80px;' alt='avatar' \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8216;Cause I got the best comedy teacher there is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My Aunty Marilyn (a.k.a. Marilyn Sokol) has been called: &#8220;a marvel&#8221; by <em>The New York Times,<\/em> &#8220;hilarious&#8221; by<em> The LA Times<\/em>, and &#8220;lethally funny&#8221; by <em>The Village Voice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She&#8217;s appeared on Off Broadway, Broadway and television and in major motion pictures, like <em>Foul Play,<\/em> with Goldie Hawn.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/Regular-Images\/MarilynSokolWSherp373x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And when she&#8217;s not teaching her craft at Lehman College, she&#8217;s giving private and group acting lessons \u2014 mostly to people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marilynsokol.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 18pt;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to see Marilyn&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And go to YouTube.com and type Marilyn Sokol in the search box and you can see clips of her acting, singing, voice overs and being interviewed about it all.  <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Here are two of my Aunty Marilyn faves on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dAUaO7ulJb4\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 18pt;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to see her scene-stealing turn with Goldie Hawn in 1978&#8217;s <em>Foul Play.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xDHwtUrUAj8\n\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 18pt;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to see a classic  Electric Company animated cartoon by my Uncle Bruce Cayard. Marilyn does the voice of the title character \u2014 Myrna.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cause I got the best comedy teacher there is! My Aunty Marilyn (a.k.a. Marilyn Sokol) has been called: &#8220;a marvel&#8221; by The New York Times, &#8220;hilarious&#8221; by The LA Times, and &#8220;lethally funny&#8221; by The Village Voice. She&#8217;s appeared on Off Broadway, Broadway and television and in major motion pictures, like Foul Play, with Goldie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherpspace.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}