10 Good Things: The 7-38-55 rule, working blue, Anthony Bourdain, Jon Stewart, and more
"What’s hard is killing while being truly unique" and other wise words.
📌 Dan Naturman [mic drop emoji]:
📌 “A lot of standup is our rebuttal to a situation we didn't like. You're not gonna yell at CVS, you're gonna write a bit about it.”
-Neal Brennan to Sebastian Maniscalco on the Blocks podcast
📌 The 7-38-55 rule:
📌 Video tip: Hard cuts that juxtapose two contrasting ideas are a great way to get laughs.
Sometimes you don’t even need dialogue, the cut is the punchline.
📌 The only line comedy shouldn’t cross is the no-laughter line. Never knew this bit about “working blue”:
Moralising pushback isn’t new. As Kliph Nesteroff explains in The Comedians (2015), the phrase ‘working blue’ comes from the blue envelope that religious vaudeville operators would send to performers backstage, indicating off-limits content.
📌 Joel Byars: “Andrew Schulz Just KILLED Netflix”
Ahead: The three boxes funny has to check, Anthony Bourdain on magic, Jason Alexander’s advice to performers, and a clip from Jon Stewart on Howard Stern.
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