Act 4 — Discover your comedy DNA · Week 31 of 52
Work, money & status
What's funny about hierarchy, ambition and organisational nonsense?
Take an authority figure's status away in one sentence.
Escalation & the turn
Bill Burr
The five moves
Same rhythm, every week.
1 — Study
Status-play comics and corporate satirists.
Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.
2 — Deconstruct
Mark who gains and loses status in 20 bits.
Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.
3 — Write
25 premises from jobs, money, bosses, meetings and titles.
10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.
4 — Perform
Run the best five to a working-age room.
Somewhere live. The classroom is useful; the audience is the laboratory.
5 — Review
Which status reversal got the biggest release?
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?