Act 4 — Discover your comedy DNA · Week 27 of 52
Point of view
What do you notice that other people walk straight past?
Find the ten things you cannot stop noticing.
Writing & work rate
Jimmy Carr
The five moves
Same rhythm, every week.
1 — Study
Comics with a hard, consistent worldview.
Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.
2 — Deconstruct
Summarise five comics' worldviews in one sentence each.
Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.
3 — Write
20 observations only you would make. No jokes yet.
10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.
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 — Review
Which observations were unique versus merely unusual?
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?