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Self-deprecation Exercise (free!)
The kryptonite of sad is COMEDY GOLD!
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Expand your jokes with these afterthought questions
Add some afterthoughts to your afterthoughts
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Lessons stand-ups can learn from improvisers #3: Flashing (+ Exercise)
It doesn't mean showing your junk
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Exercise: Satirical headlines
Required reading:
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The Surrealist Inquisition Question Sheet by Sally Holloway
The Serious Guide To Joke Writing (How to Say Something Funny about Anything) is definitely one of the better comedy books out there.
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Kopfkino (visual humour) exercise
Required reading:
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Exercise: Pitch a sitcom starring you!
I don't ask much
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Exercise: What I really mean is...
The ultimate authenticity exercise you can keep on coming back to
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Exercise: It's your funeral
Die hypothetically, not on stage!
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Exercise: Amplify your attitude
Self deprecating in a cartoonish way
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Monologuing as a writing tool
Do it in Aldi, nobody will notice
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Afterthought exercise - positive / negative
Your mama's so thin...
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