How Much Work Goes Into Being Funny?

i want to start by asking you about being funny, because you're very funny. And our earlier drafts of your book, like markedly less funny. Do the jokes come into like sharper focus as you revise? That is where the work comes in interesting. It is not so much to go through and a, you know, in hollywood parlance, something up. But to just take it away so that it's more what serves the story, what doesn't. You know, ask yourself, is this good for the jews? Instead of jews narrative, you don't it likeasis.

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