Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

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10 Good Things: Eminem stacking ammo, Louis CK and Joe Rogan on writing, and starting with "I"
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10 Good Things: Eminem stacking ammo, Louis CK and Joe Rogan on writing, and starting with "I"

Also: Kyle Kinane on crowdwork, how to follow up, and more.

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💥 Kyle Kinane on crowd work [via Sean McCarthy]:

“I hate bad crowd work and the fact that people will perceive it to be this easy bounce towards a viral clip. And so everybody’s putting out clips where I’m like, I would delete this from my phone if I took this at a show. You put it online? There’s that mentality of like, just as long as there’s content out there… I’m like, God, what a sea of shit we’ve created.”

💥 “Eminem thinks of rap as a puzzle; all the rhymes he’s amassed in his notes are the pieces. He just has to fit them together…[He] refers to collecting rhymes as “stacking ammo.’”

Loose leaf with lyrics to “Lose Yourself,” Eminem: The Way I Am

💥 Standup comedy is…

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Mohanad Elshieky on Instagram: “If you’re new to stand up or been doing it for a bit, hope this helps clarify stuff ❤️”
January 26, 2024

💥 The Secrets Of Successful Creators (PDF) from Josh Spector:

This 97-page free ebook features 250 proven strategies from the world's most successful creative entrepreneurs you can use to produce, promote, and profit from your creations…It's available as a "pay-what-you-can" purchase.

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Caroline Clifford
on callbacks and starting with “I”:

One of the only types of structural advice I give to comedians is to start your set with a lot of “I” observations. I’m neurotic, I’m lazy, I’m a huge homo - whatever it is, because these “I” statements can form natural call-backs later on. Call-backs aside, we need to know what kind of a person you are in order to receive your material in the way it was intended to be received.

Up ahead: How to follow up with bookers (or anyone else), CK on Rogan talking writing methods, choosing your word, and more…

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