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How Jokes Work (From The Audience’s Perspective)

How Jokes Work (From the Audience’s Perspective) As you’ll see, comedic conflict and joke-telling are not completely inseparable. A joke is simply a setup/punchline structure that is designed to create a comedic conflict. All jokes create comedic conflict, but not all comedic conflict is created from jokes. Understanding comedic conflict greatly increases your repertoire as […]

Comedic Conflict – How Humor Works

How to Be a Comedian, How to write stand-up comedy, jokes, Success / Jared Volle

Comedic Conflict is easily the most important topic in comedy. When you understand Comedic Conflict, you understand the single-most important tool in every comedian’s toolbox. There aren’t any “exceptions to the rule” with Comedic Conflict (unlike joke-structures). It’s easy to see examples of Comedic Conflict throughout stand-up, improvisational comedy, sketch comedy, TV, movies, and even

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