This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.
John HodgmanHere's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.
John HodgmanGenerally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
John HodgmanI think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
John Hodgman