"My dream was to be a stand up comedian, but at some point I realised that I was better at writing for people than performing myself, " he says.
But Royal Mail said he did not fit the bill for the collection as a stand-up comedian and had been rejected by the selection panel.
It could be that a creative technologist, a digital strategist, a filmmaker or maybe even a stand-up comedian are the right people you need to gather around the table.
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When he was 14, he joined the Merchant Marines for three years before starting his career as a stand-up comedian in London -- changing his name along the way.
"Annie knows how to make sure we don't look like an all-neck giraffe in pictures, " said Kim Blacklock, a stand-up comedian who bills herself as one of tallest women on the planet.
Dean Obeidallah, founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and a stand-up comedian who conducts workshops in the Middle East, said he has witnessed an explosion in the number of local comics in the region.
The book's messages are common sense--try "seeing things from a different perspective, " be more "original in your approach to leadership"--but the hope is that drawing comparisons to a stand-up comedian can help leaders approach their work more creatively and, of course, with some humor.
Whatever the size of the audience, being a stand-up comedian, alone on the stage in front of an audience that may or may not be friendly, with only a microphone to hold on to, is agony if you flop, and ecstasy if it likes you.
In a particularly clever study, they compared two versions of Facebook ads for a real stand-up comedian.
Al Gore now has a serious rival in the stand-up comedian game.
"He has a Marmite effect, you either love him or you hate him, " says Dr Oliver Double, who lectures in stand-up comedy at Kent University and is a former circuit comedian.
Stand-up comic Tony Jameson, who has an occasional, slight stammer, says that if a comedian has a structure and a routine that includes someone who speaks in a different way, it can be sometimes be acceptable.
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