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Unit 3 · Chapter 15 · 10 min

The operators and how to stack them

Exaggeration, understatement, reversal, literalism, misdirection, act-out — the six machines you'll use forever.

An operator is a repeatable transformation you apply to a premise. Give the same premise to six comics and you'll usually see the same six operators, because there aren't a hundred ways to break an expectation — there are about a dozen, and six do most of the work.

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