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Speaker FRANK MILES Subjects entertainment, motivation        Video Clip

What do you call a comedy juggler, a standup comedian, a comedy magician, and a composer of humorous songs who uses his act to teach people that they can overcome their deepest fears and accomplish anything they really want to? Most people just call him funny.
 
Frank Miles delivers a riotously funny and totally unique show that's also a motivational workshop filled with powerful tools for handling fear. The show bounces from insightful standup comedy, to a slapstick turn juggling fire on a giant unicycle, to performing the world's only PingPong spitting ballet. Maybe that's why Penn Gillete of "Penn and Teller" fame pronounced this young man, "A comedy machine!"
 
Hollywood agrees, judging from Frank's success on show's like "Comic Strip Live," "Evening At the improv," MTV`s "Half Hour Comedy Hour," and HBO's "The Larry Sander's Show" with Garry Shandling.
 
Frank's humor runs the gamut from monologues on the terrors of commitment to incredible feats like juggling a sixteen pound bowling ball over a volunteer's head in a dramatic demonstration of how you can overcome fear when you have your priorities straight.
 
Frank Miles began his performing career at the age of fifteen as a street entertainer, passing the hat on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, His parents used to beat him daily, take the few dollars in change he had collected from tourists, and spend it all on cheap liquor. Okay, that test part's not true, but it kind of grabs your attention, doesn't it? This is true: he won the first annual "Best Street Entertainer in San Francisco" competition at age eighteen.
 
At nineteen he went on the road, performing in casinos and hotels in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. It was a difficult time for a young struggling artist, working three, sometimes four hours a week, and sharing a tiny dressing room with showgirls nearly twice his size, but he struggled through, and even enjoyed himself at times.
 
Frank now calls Paris, France home, though he lives in Los Angeles and appears regularly on all the televised standup showcase shows.

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