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 …
TOPICAL COMEDY How to Turn News Into Jokes Using Satire
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 …
APPS AND TOOLS FOR COMEDIANS
FIVE Websites, apps and tools to help you with writing 1 – ORGANISE YOUR JOKES However you prefer to organise your jokes, Evernote will make that process easier. You can set up Notebooks with specific functions, tag jokes, search your database of jokes. With a premium account you can use …
JOKE INSPIRATION LIST.
Check out our joke inspiration list before heading to your next open mic. For new comedians it can be difficult to know what you should write jokes about. For more experienced comedians it can be easy to get writers block and not be able to think of any fresh ideas. …
WRITING SETUPS FOR JOKES.
Random Punchlines – A setup joke writing exercise. It is helpful to be able to separate a punchline from the setup. Below are a list of 30 punchlines to real jokes. You should pick a random punchline and write as many setups as you possibly can for it. Setups should …
PREMISE DECONSTRUCTION. Using Improvisation to find Joke Premises
As a standup, you know the importance of strong, focused premises. But coming up with great ideas can be difficult. Taking a tip from improv can help spark new premises in a low-pressure, creative way. The format “Armando” asks an improviser to give a truthful, autobiographical monologue about a word …
JOKE RACK SIMILES. Comparing unlike things.
Write original punchlines using comparisons to random objects. Fill In The Blanks with an object, and then write your own punchline. Sex with me is like a (blank). We will choose ‘meeting’ for this example.. Now write your own punchline. It lasts too long and 80% of the people don’t …
WRITING PUNS. The Pun Store exercise
Write as many puns for each ‘store’ as you possibly can. Then pick a new store and repeat till you feel your Dad vibes flowing. THE PUN STORE I run a BLANK store. (Let the internet help you find a random object.) How’s business? Pretty ________ (insert adjective) Example: I …
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