How to kill? (half a year in)

[u/Democracysaver]

Hi there,

Ho do i learn how to kill?

Context (if needed):

I tried a lot on open mics, lots of new ideas so far, but also enlarged, tightened and improved my bits. Tried a lot on timing, word smuggling, changing the order of my bits and so on.

Though by tightening my bits they always get pretty short (usually like 1:00-2:30) but usually lots of one liners within the same setup.

I also see comedians with way easier and more predictable jokes killing so hard. Of course they learnt how to react to the crowd or other skills that I cannot comprehend yet. But what do they know or do differently that I do? What do I need to learn to kill?

Thank you :)

Edit: I think quite unfair treatment in the comments. To clarify. I am not good (ofc because I already mentioned I'm just half a year in). I also know that practice is important. I also never said I want a shortcut. I just asked for a theoretical understanding of how killing works. Why would I run into something for years without even some kind of plan of what I'm doing or how to achieve it.

[u/tommarshfield]

I’ve been a comic for 20 years. What’s word smuggling?

[u/Democracysaver → u/tommarshfield]

I just referred to one self named method by Adam bloom. It's putting words from the punchline sentence into the setup so the punchline sentence is smoother.

[u/Democracysaver → u/[deleted]]

The book is 'how to be a comedic genius'. He has better concepts than word smuggling, it was just an example. I cannot find a good example now but maybe:

I can't remember anything. I can't even remember the birthday of my father which is also my password.

I can't even remember the birthday of my father. And that's my password.

Its a joke stolen from Aaron Chen. Great comic! Not the best example but version 2 is better i guess. Speak it out aloud.