James Acaster's Great British Bake Off
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
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How to Write a Technical Routine on a Stage
The amount of jokes in your first five minutes equals the next 15 terms of total. The way you introduce the technical I think shows like what it looks like to write on stage because there's so many laughs along the way. There was a few lines at the beginning of that where I found that if I told them the truth which was that I had to make three identical cream horns it wasn't as funny. You have to get every single reason why in that moment it was bad for you rather than getting the first laugh.
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