Act 4 — Discover your comedy DNA · Week 30 of 52
Relationships
Where is the reliable insanity in family, dating and children?
Make a room recognise their own marriage inside your story.
The five moves
Same rhythm, every week.
1 — Study
Relationship comics across generations.
Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.
2 — Deconstruct
20 bits: what universal dynamic is under each specific story?
Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.
3 — Write
25 premises about the people you cannot escape.
10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.
4 — Perform
Run five. Watch for the couples elbowing each other.
Somewhere live. The classroom is useful; the audience is the laboratory.
5 — Review
Did you punch at them or include yourself?
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?