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Mar 27Liked by Caroline Clifford

dear caroline,

informative and entertaining as always!

i love the chunk of thoughts that starts with "I’m currently in a good and stable relationship (BOO!)"

thanks for sharing everything you do!

love

myq

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I love how you took something good that was already making me laugh (Matt’s draft), and made it much stronger.

My reaction to Matt: this is a funny idea. I bet I could take this somewhere in my voice.

My reaction to your punch-up: this is so strong, I might as well just retire now, because I’m not even going to be able to land a glove on this lady.

My eventual conclusion: stop being a baby, she explained exactly what she did. The explanation makes sense. I can do it my own way, which would begin by omitting the word “chucklefuckers.” (Can we just admit that it’s a little played out at this point? To be fair, it was fresh when Shakespeare had Hamlet say it.)

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Lol ha thanks that put me on an emotional journey. For the record, I mean "chucklefuckers" in a deeply ironic way. Please like me, my heart is pure! 🥲

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Sold! I’ve always been easily convinced by wheedling.

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Mar 30Liked by Caroline Clifford

Thanks for including me in your article! That was fun to read. I think you're totally right about the emotion being boredom being a difficult one to make funny. I had been toying around with idea of making it much angrier or self loathing, but I haven't quite figured out how to fit it into my persona.

Giving notes on a boring story is a great angle too, I'll play around with that.

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Thanks for sending me your notes. I'll do a follow up pretty soon. Yeah it still has to fit with you. Anger and self-loathing work for me (lol) but you'll hopefully figure out what fits with your voice.

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This article is so good! I really love this concept, and I've come back to it a few times.

I'd love to see more examples of what you think the emotional core is in various bits. Have you done this in any other articles or elsewhere?

Do you think every good bit of standup has an emotional core, or is that just one approach? I've been watching some great "straight standup" where I'm not sure if/what the emotional core is.

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