Crowdwork tips
Say the unsaid things that everyone in a room is feeling.
Couple of recent quotes about crowdwork and tension.
💥 Lucas Zelnick on crowdwork, tension, and “making fun of allies while being one.”
Good comedy can, if at the very base level, summarize and make people feel seen for the collective but unsaid things that everyone in a room is feeling. And if you can articulate that very well, sometimes, before you even say a joke, just articulating and seeing people for that is funny in itself. Comedy's about tension and release, but sometimes relieving that tension means just addressing it in a way that's not making anyone feel bad…Crowd work doesn't just have to be a joke written about the content of what someone does or who I am. It can be a narration of the heightened emotional state that everybody is in.
💥 Crowdwork tips via Ian Bagg.
4. Lean into the discomfort
Ian shares an example of a lady bringing up her dead husband and how he steered this moment into comedy. His reply was, “So you’re single? Did he leave you money?” Instead of shying away, Ian leans into the discomfort and creates and escape for both the widow and the audience. He breaks that tension with comedy.
