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Unit 5 · Lesson 11 · 10 min

Crowd Work: The Room Is A Writers' Room That Hasn't Been Paid

Not roasting. An investigation: ask a specific question, keep their exact words, build the bit they accidentally wrote.

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Most people learn crowd work backwards. They watch a clip of somebody destroying a heckler and decide crowd work means winning a fight. That's one percent of it, and it's the least useful one percent. Crowd work is an interview technique that produces material no other comedian on earth can have, because it only exists in this room, tonight.

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