How to Balance Going to Mike's First Writing

I think people get into a habit of trying to figure out like don't do comedy that's like shock value comedy. Try to move away from shock value and try to do like just funny. So if you have a dirty joke, ask yourself, well, what is this joke about? What is the premise? What are you trying to say? And then what's a cleaner way? I can say this. What are words that could be replaced with cleaner words? There's usually always a way you could kind of you can clean it. Always.