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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
How to Be a Great Stand Up Comedian
I was feeling that urge that I really wanted to like you know open myself up. It's not really vulnerable per se except for like little lines like that here and there that pop up. So I was sort of those came from me trying to experiment a little bit, then I started really experimenting because my jokes were so short. Then at one point started experimenting with structure a lot. And I tried to write a certain structure joke over and over and over which was a little bit of setup that might be longer than most jokes 30 seconds but then do so that every single line after that is a punch line. You could have 90 seconds to two minutes and every single line I say is a punch
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