This post breaks deconstruction (aka Armando which seems like a silly name when you don’t have the context and even sillier when you do) into two ways to make pulls from the Monologist (the Armando). First, choose how close you want to stay to the monologue: Primary, Tangent, or Abstract or close, medium, or far …

You’ve mastered act outs, wordplay, misdirects, lists of three, analogies, and exaggeration, which you can read about in Part 1. Yay! You’re now less likely to die on the hill of dick jokes at an open mic night, because you did your comedy homework. Most people don’t and are happy to torture audience with their …

We’d all love to be as good as Jon Stewart at the Daily Show. (Wouldn’t we? I would! ) Current events jokes can be a pain because they are related to a moment that will end soon so you can’t use the joke over and over as you would more evergreen material. But understanding and …