thanks for writing this! great post, as always! very thoughtful analysis of callbacks!
i have found in my years of doing comedy that, for me, often the best callbacks arise organically. sometimes i'm doing mainly shorter sets and then when i do a longer one, i find that some jokes from different shorter sets go together in ways that i hadn't discovered yet.
in fact, when i recorded my Dry Bar special (which i was doing as a kind of "greatest hits" including jokes from 5 different albums i'd released between 2010 and 2020), i found a connection between a joke that was on my 2010 album and a different joke in a 2014 special, and a new beautiful callback arose in that moment between jokes that had never even been in the same set!
in that way, for me, the best callbacks are Found more than Made. Discovered more than Manufactured. Curated more than Created.
now just to wait for the perfect callback to arise to end this comment...
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ok maybe i'll come up with it in 4 years. stay tuned! thanks again! <-- a callback to my original thanks? (no)
dear caroline,
thanks for writing this! great post, as always! very thoughtful analysis of callbacks!
i have found in my years of doing comedy that, for me, often the best callbacks arise organically. sometimes i'm doing mainly shorter sets and then when i do a longer one, i find that some jokes from different shorter sets go together in ways that i hadn't discovered yet.
in fact, when i recorded my Dry Bar special (which i was doing as a kind of "greatest hits" including jokes from 5 different albums i'd released between 2010 and 2020), i found a connection between a joke that was on my 2010 album and a different joke in a 2014 special, and a new beautiful callback arose in that moment between jokes that had never even been in the same set!
in that way, for me, the best callbacks are Found more than Made. Discovered more than Manufactured. Curated more than Created.
now just to wait for the perfect callback to arise to end this comment...
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ok maybe i'll come up with it in 4 years. stay tuned! thanks again! <-- a callback to my original thanks? (no)
love
myq
In movies and TV, this is known as a "running gag".