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Steven Pressfield

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

CHAPTER

How to Write a Joke

When I have a day writing a joke, tell me. Can you say you're writing a day off? You are a day off. When I don't let those things out and then share them, it feels like too much anxiety. That's where the craft comes in. But the identification of what a joke is now comes from a strong feeling, which often isn't funny. It's just a deeply excited, urgent feeling and to answer my own question and to put it back to you. And when I go on stage, I have, don't forget to talk about anxiety, but I didn't have to like try to remember I have anxiety Thank God. that's how I feel

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