Turning notes in to material (afterthought edition) - with Ozan

Keep your premises simple

Thanks very much for reader Ozan for responding to my chat where I say you can ask me anything about stand-up and I’ll try and help! Ozan asks:

Hi, I can write about interesting topics and explain funny stuff in general. However, I feel like they're not "stand up funny" but rather "bar funny".

One theory I have is: I'm bad at generating after thoughts and my brain (sense of humour) somehow doesn't work like that. I followed your after thought exercise. But I couldn't transfer that to stand up material. How can I move from writing other people's opinions about my opinions to generating the after thought itself?

Ah the good old “internal editor” that tells us we’re good at this, but not so much of that. Don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee! I hate Mondays! Yes, your internal editor is Garfield.

How did Garfield even have a concept of the week?