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Judy
Carter provides an entertaining, skill-building
and participatory talk which will show how to use humor as a powerful
tool. A successful standup comic and corporate humorist, she was featured
in the Wall Street Journal, as well as on CNN and ABC World News, Oprah
and Entertainment Tonight. Ms Carter
is on the Board of Directors of The Tom Peter's Group and is the author
of Standup Comedy: The Book (Dell
Books, 8th printing) the bible for anyone wanting to learn comedy. Highly acclaimed
as a standup comedian, she has appeared on HBO, The Comedy Channel and
Showtime, as well as several sitcoms, and has toured colleges and theaters
across the United States. Carter's expertise
and understanding of how the comedic touch can transforms large areas
of our lives and careers has created a demand for her as a speaker and
workshop leader at colleges and
corporations on a variety of topics including: "Making Humor Work
for You," "Defusing Stress with Humor,"
"Healing through Humor, and "Welcoming Diversity," a
sensitivity workshop for corporate executives
which diffuses bigotry with the use of humor. Her success
in the field of corporate comedy led to a feature story in the Wall
Street Journal entitled, "Companies Hire Judy Carter to Help Employees
Cope with Workplace Traumas." (June ’97). She is also on the Board
of Directors for The Tom Peter's Group. Carter is
a native Los Angelino who graduated from USC with a Theater Arts degree.
Entrepreneurial at a young age, she started a 'birthday party' company
at 8 years old which provided performers (usually Judy) for birthday
party magic shows. She was featured in the Los Angeles Times by the
time she turned 10. Her love for magic found her studying with magic
masters Doug Henning and Dai Vernon and she became the first woman to
ever perform at the Magic Castle's close-up room, She be gan
her stand-up career by accident. As she was on tour with her magic act,
her materials did not turn up at the nightclub, In the tradition of
"the show must go on" Carter had to wing it and began making
performing off-the-cuff comedy. It worked so well, she never again had
to lug props around. You can take her
home on video in "Paramount Comedy Theater, with Howie Mandel,
Part One" and see why critics across the country have called her,
"brilliant." Larry King called her "outrageous'."
and why Pat Buchanan doesn't call her at all. |
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