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When to Kill Your Jokes, How to Find a Good Venue, The Value of Stage Time + MORE

Hot Breath! (Learn Comedy from the Pros)

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The Importance of Tags on Jokes

There's a basic structure of a bit that it's like you need to end on the best laugh. You don't wanna have a big punch and then a bunch of tags that just kind of fade out type deal. George Wallace mentioned six tags, that was his rule. He said he would work out which one would work. And I saw him do two shows, and I saw him did five tags on another. When he did those five tags, the crowd was in stitches. They were just, they lost it. Boboom.

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