How to Write Stand Up Comedy?

Han: I was very bad at writing at school, really. And we were taught that the way you write is you have a blank bit of paper and you go in the beginning,. once upon a time, and then you go and you just, it flows along from there. That's not h i don't know any writers who write like that, but that's how you're youre tol at school. But when it comes to writing stand up, like, pen to page, write stand up, it turns into a very literary essay. You sort of start with a sort of skeleton of something, and then it fills in. To me, it's more than painting

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