Everyone wants to stand out at comedy auditions. Here’s how to do it. 1. Wear funny glasses. I got a pair of hipster glasses with thick brown frames and wore them the first time I auditioned for "How I Met Your Mother." The breakdown called for a quirky girl, so I thought: clearly hipster glasses are quirky. The casting director asked for me to take them off at the audition. I didn’t get the part, and have never been asked back to audition for the show. Knock, knock, who’s there? Not me. 2. Pronounce your name weird. For six months, I thought it would be a real knee-slapper to pronounce my last name (Grano) so that it rhymed with U2’s lead singer Bono. Get this: I normally pronounce it so that it rhymes with Dano – as in "Little Miss Sunshine," "There Will Be Blood," "Ruby Sparks," "Looper" Paul Dano. Every time I slated with my Bono-rhyming last name, I would lose my concentration. Bono Grano sounded so foreign on my lips. The hilarious punchline: I didn’t book a single job the whole time I pronounced my name Bono Grano. Ba dump ching!! 3. Call yourself out. Shortly after moving to L.A., I decided to audition for The Geffen. It was their general audition, which comes around about annually,
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