Point of view

The five moves

Same rhythm, every week.

1. 1 — Study

   Comics with a hard, consistent worldview.

   Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.

2. 2 — Deconstruct

   Summarise five comics' worldviews in one sentence each.

   Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.

3. 3 — Write

   20 observations only you would make. No jokes yet.

   10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.

4. 4 — Perform

   Say five of them as statements and see which ones get a reaction.

   Somewhere live. The classroom is useful; the audience is the laboratory.

5. 5 — Review

   Which observations were unique versus merely unusual?

   Watch the tape. Log what the room did, not what you felt.