Anahata
I agree with you on "paperwork"

Strollin' Johnny is very good and the audience warm to him. As he has said, he takes the paperwork with him as a form of backup. That makes sense to me. I haven't heard any mistakes from him, although I guess only he would know that.

In the past I used to go into big companies and teach people, how to use Word and Excel at advance level. I knew my subject inside out, but I still took notes with me, incase I had a mental blackout. Can't remember using them very often, but when I did, nobody was really aware.

If you are professional and know your business, you put into place backup procedures just in case.

Its a bit like doing a presentation, you have bullet points to jog your mind.

Unfortunately some people write out their speech in full and read from it through the whole of their speech. This is awful and to me shows lack of knowledge/preparation of their topic or their inabilty to do presentations.

Isn't this a bit similar to a folk artist? The latter paragragh is the one that bothers me.