Exaggeration

The five moves

Same rhythm, every week.

1. 1 — Study

   Physical and verbal escalators: Murphy, Kinane, Wolf.

   Watch on purpose. Specific comedians, specific reason.

2. 2 — Deconstruct

   20 bits: mark the exact line where reality stops and cartoon starts.

   Isolate one mechanism. Name it before you use it.

3. 3 — Write

   15 premises taken one click past reasonable, then the same 15 taken ten clicks.

   10–25 premises minimum. Quantity buys quality.

4. 4 — Perform

   Perform both versions. Let the audience pick.

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

5. 5 — Review

   Where did commitment save an absurd claim? Where did hedging kill it?

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