One of the reasons that naturally funny people can struggle needlessly on the
stand-up comedy stage is because they are unaware of what makes them funny in
everyday life or how to apply that natural talent to developing stand-up comedy
material.
Let me say this before I get to the meat of this lengthy article…
Trying to work with mere words and sentences on paper (joke writing) to get big
laughs on stage is much like focusing on the steering wheel of a car, without
the rest of the car.
Now let's talk about what makes someone funny from a functional perspective and
how that is applied -- or not applied -- to the stand-up comedy material
development process.
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