How Do You Develop a Humor Formula for Stand Up Comics?

i hated the idea of being formulaic. That meant you were a hack, right? And so it wasn't until i became a copy writer and needed these frameworks to make my work easier and faster, that i appreciated them. There is this joke formula that i call the persona joke formula. It's the one that comedians rely on when the stakes are high. So the stakes are never higher for a stand up comic when they get their first national television appearance.

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