Hey, and welcome to the third part of list writing. So this is where things begin to get a little more interesting. Hopefully you dove in on the questions and got about a page page and a half from your list of facts. And hopefully those questions were pretty interesting. You really, I hope we're finding questions that are intriguing, that really get some kind of tickle from you when you write them. Hopefully, that's like a feeling of Ooh, that's interesting, or I Oh, that's kind of a funny question, or, I wish I didn't know more about that.

So in this section, what we're going to do is we're going to start writing setups. Now, after this, I'm going to explain it what setups really are, and go into further detail about joke structure that's going to occur in the next unit. Really, this is kind of a situation in which it makes sense sometimes to maybe learn about joke structure before returning and actually writing punch lines, which is what we're going to eventually move to After writing setup, so I would encourage you to think about maybe skipping the next lesson in terms of punch line writing, and then going to the actual joke structure unit. And we will get into greater detail about joke structure there. However, you don't have to do that you could move on directly to punch lines as well. But for the time being, we're in setups and what are setups?

Well, setups are the first part of a joke. And they're not the same as a premise, which I will get into in joke structure. But there's something that sets up a premise. And what I like to do is do what I'm doing on the screen right now, basically, which is go through and create spaces in between each of these, each of these bullet points. So we're gonna hit return a couple of times and get a little space in between each of these bullet points. And what a setup basically is, is it's assigning an emotion to the question So it's essentially taking an emotion like anger, joy, curiosity, frustration, depression, contempt, you name it, whatever emotion or emotive language you want to have.

That is what you're assigning to the question, and you're rephrasing it to be a statement. So this is a little bit odd to try to, to wrap your head around, but we're going to do it a few times, and you're going to get the hang of it yourself, and you can go ahead and do it. So for each one of your questions, whatever your first emotion is, that comes up, you want to go ahead and just write it down. So my first question is, Why didn't anyone think of this Slurpee before? 711? I think that is, that's an interesting question.

But my real take on it is I bet people did, they just didn't have the technology. So my setup is is going to be it's awesome. That we have the technology to have slurpees that autocorrect I still didn't fix it. It's awesome that we have the technology to have slurpees. Imagine how much better we have it than literally everyone in the past. So this you can see this is starting to go in the direction of a bit.

That I would just say. It's amazing that the first Slurpee was created in, let's say, 1980 1982. And nobody had a Slurpee ever before then. And then this this, this is just getting my brain thinking. And I might say, Gutenberg, the guy who, who invented the printing press, not Steve Gutenberg, just to be clear on Neil Armstrong. No smoothie or no Slurpee.

King Henry Henry the Eighth. No Slurpee. Oh my god, that's so stupid. Okay, so, but the this is the setup. So I just want to be clear with this. And we're going to do a couple more of these.

So you completely get the concept before we move on because it is something that's very important to the list writing method of comedy. But the question was, Why didn't anyone think of the Slurpee before 711. And my emotion that I signed to It was awesome, or luck or positivity, that we have the technology to have slurpees we're lucky that we have that we live in this time. It's awesome. As another way to put that I could also rewrite it. We were lucky to live in a time of slurpees used to mean that no one in the past had ever had one before 1982.

I don't even know if that's true. But that's just what I wrote. And it sounds plausible. So let's go ahead and use it for now. Maybe I'll look at actual time up later. But then I came up with a story Second setup.

So this is actually a different setup than goes with this question. But that question was so good that it got me to get more than one setup out of it. Imagine how much better we have it than literally everyone else in the past. That's why we're lucky. So I've got three setups here, all together. And I could I could use just one of them.

I could use all three of them, but we're not going to do anything with them yet. The point of this is just to write as many setups as possible. So that's the next setup that I wrote, which came from this question also was, it's amazing that the first Slurpee was created in 1982. And nobody had a Slurpee ever before then. So I got four out of that one question, but you can see here a little I said, Why doesn't autocorrect know, the word Slurpee automatically? Um, I could just say to the audience, did you know that autocorrect doesn't know the word Slurpee.

Did you know that that's it. That's a setup on itself. Did you know that It's a question. It's a question that I'm, that I'm using. And it's a question in the setup, but it is actually a setup. I could also just say, isn't it isn't that weird?

Now might assign an emotion to it. And the point that I'm getting to here is that each one of these has to have some emotion assigned to it who doesn't know about slurpees? Um, I could have a number of different ways I could take this I could write something like I did some research. Goodness, I am so bad at typing. I did some research and found out that there are people who really don't know about slurpees. It's true.

And the immediate idea that comes to mind, it could be another setup. It could be the punchline of the joke. It's just something but the immediate thing that came up for me here is I'm establishing a A charity to deliver slurpees to the less fortunate who have never heard of them. I mean, that's a setup in itself. I'm establishing a charity to deliver hoops. I'm establishing a charity to deliver slurpees to the less fortunate who have never heard of them.

Do other countries have seven elevens. I could just say something like, it's ridiculous that America is the only country with a 711 with seven elevens. It's a human travesty that every country doesn't have one. So there's a number of ways I could take it. I could say we're lucky that we have them. It's really Listen, America is the only one that has them.

I'm angry that America only has them. I'm, I'm wonder why America only has them. Is it a coincidence that only America has them? And also, we are the most economically rich country in the world? I don't know. I mean, those are just a bunch of different things I could take with that just as I, as I write through these.

So the idea just to review, and we're going to videos going on for a while, but the idea just to review is that you want to take these questions. You want to assign emotions to them. Awesome. How much better we have it? We have it better isn't emotion. We're lucky.

It's amazing. Did you know that autocorrect does another word Slurpee isn't that weird? I did some research find out there are people who don't really know about slurpees It's true. Isn't that sad? That's the emotion so sometimes the emotion is implied and I've been doing comedy a long time. So you have to forgive me because when I write some of these I know the emotion.

And I know that I can convey the emotion by inflection of voice. We will cover that in the performance and rehearsal sector of this course. But you want to go ahead and write it down. Isn't that sad? It's sad that I did research and find out that there are people who really don't know about slurpees. It's true.

It's ridiculous. Those are all good emotion. So you want to make sure that you have that infective emotional language as you go through here. And those are the setups and then we're going to move on and talk about punch lines next. So go through each one of your questions, write down a setup at least one setup for each of them. If you're really racking your brain, go with something crazy, go with something go the opposite of your intuition.

Just really get creative here and write down a lot and at least do one for everyone. Hopefully, if you did a page and a half of questions, you should end up with about two pages of setups.