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Dark one-liners at machine-gun speed
Jimmy Carr's Brutally Honest Advice — The Diary Of A CEO Clips
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One-liners, misdirection and the dark turn.
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Jimmy Carr
Bill Burr
The rant and the self-own
Nate Bargatze
Clean, slow, confidently confused
Dave Chappelle
Long-form storytelling and the reversal
Jim Gaffigan
The inner-voice aside
Sarah Silverman
Sweet delivery, savage content
Taylor Tomlinson
Confessional one-liners for a new generation
Gianmarco Soresi
Crowd work as a writing engine
Mike Vecchione
Roast-battle aggression and tags
Rita Rudner
Deadpan domestic one-liners
Nikki Glaser
Roast precision and radical honesty
Rodney Dangerfield
No respect: the rapid-fire self-own
Shane Gillis
Characters, impressions and the dumb-smart guy
Anthony Jeselnik
The arrogant dark turn
John Mulaney
Story architecture and precise callbacks
Ricky Gervais
Taboo with a wink
Mark Normand
Tight, neurotic one-liners
Sam Morril
Deadpan economy, zero wasted words
Andrew Schulz
Crowd work and cultural provocation
Sebastian Maniscalco
Physical act-outs and family outrage
Ali Wong
Raunch, honesty and act-outs
Tom Segura
Laid-back storytelling and the gross-out
Theo Von
Surreal Southern storytelling
Chris Rock
Preacher rhythm and the hard truth
Jerry Seinfeld
Observational precision, word by word
25 artists · 175 lessons · 7 clips in this study
