Act 4 — Discover your comedy DNA · Week 25 of 52
What makes YOU laugh?
What is the pattern hiding in your own taste?
Replace 'I like Chappelle' with a sentence describing the exact machine you love.
The five moves
Same rhythm, every week.
1 — Study
Your 100 favourite clips and jokes. All of them, in one week.
Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.
2 — Deconstruct
Tag every one with mechanism, subject, emotional fuel, persona and delivery.
Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.
3 — Write
One page naming the three patterns that repeat most.
10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.
4 — Perform
Perform something built deliberately from your top pattern.
Somewhere live. The classroom is useful; the audience is the laboratory.
5 — Review
Did it feel easier to write than everything before it?
Watch the tape. Log what the room did, not what you felt.
The Comedy Genome
Tag what made you laugh.
Tag every joke you studied this week. After a few months the pattern stops being an opinion and becomes your comedy DNA.
Your twin asks
Eleven questions, every week.
- What made you laugh this week?
- What did the audience laugh at?
- Where did you lose them?
- Which jokes feel most like you?
- What are you afraid to say?
- What's the funniest version of this?
- What would Pryor do with this?
- What would Carlin attack?
- What would Hedberg remove?
- What would Rock repeat?
- What would Bamford make uncomfortably specific?