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25 Years of Stories: Funny Ha Ha

The Moth

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The Storyteller Audience Rewards You for Being Vulnerable

I think the storyteller audiences reward you for being vulnerable yes in such a huge way that comedy club audiences don't know no. I actually recently identified a new storytelling problem there were some people who approached storytelling as here is a string of jokes I want to make and then choose a narrative to let me hit every joke yeah. The funny people who are really successful at the moth you just the opposite they're like this is a story that I want to tell and I'm going to include the jokes that actually support it  and go into it but if there's a joke that takes me out of ityou know that that actually the jokes are there to support the story and not the reverse

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