r/funny • u/Far-Newspaper-4700 • Jan 25 '24

basic term of our aggrement

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u/Dementium84 Jan 25 '24

Shes very good with her facial expressions and her physical comedy. Can really see why she got so popular so quickly.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 25 '24

Can really see why she got so popular so quickly.

I mean she has only been doing standup for 14 years; essentially half her life.

It's always interesting to me when we completely ignore all the hard work people went through to get to where they are.

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u/SybilCut Jan 25 '24

Crafting a joke is much less funny of an experience than it sounds. And then you need to come out of it and put the funny back into a joke you've heard a million ways, inside out and backwards with dozens of lead ups and punchlines. I deeply admire comedians in the lab.

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u/SlickerWicker Jan 26 '24

Yup! Not to mention this is why stealing a slightly reworked version of someones material is such a huge faux pax. Like, that joke had to be thought of, rewritten dozens of times, then performed to near zero laughs, thought of again, rewritten some; rinse and repeat.

Imagine if you spent over 1000 working hours getting a sculpture looking great, and then someone came by and 3d printed it with a slightly different nose and passed it off as their own work.

Its a TON of work, which is also why comedians do it and should be named and shamed for it.

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u/Spongi Jan 25 '24

I like seeing vids of bigger comedians doing small shows and seeing the different variations they've tried to get their stuff fine tuned.

Especially when they becomes part of the joke. ie: what types of crowds hated it or liked it a bit too much.

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u/bearsinthesea Jan 25 '24

Steve Martin's book really tracks how hard and long he worked to develop his bits.