Arranging Jokes Into a Bit

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Transcript

So welcome to the next unit on editing this one is about arrangement. So after you go into the actual words, the diction of your jokes, you're going to have a handful of different ones that you want to use maybe on stage, you want to arrange those in a way that sort of makes sense from a thematic standpoint to build the premise as you work through your bits and your routines. So what I've done here is I've cleaned this up a little bit i've i've This is the same document we were using before the 711 routine talking about slurpees. Maybe I'll end up using some of this onstage and, and popping the video on here to accommodate the course. But the the bits here are divided up in a way that maybe doesn't make the most sense. So I've got our first joke here.

It's awesome and the technology to have slurpees exists. We are so much we have it so much better than literally everyone else in the past. Imagine slurpees of the future. We'll have they could be amazing uranium flavored drink it and glow in the dark moon slurpees zero G slurpees. You drink the slurpees and you go weightless. All that kind of stuff Slurpee was invented in 1982.

And nothing interesting has happened since moon in 1969. Last moon mission was the year the Slurpee was invented. No Mars mission Slurpee was the culmination of history. Maybe scientists will divide history into pre and post Slurpee time reckoning PC ad pre Slurpee post Slurpee PS and PS. Okay, so maybe not those maybe the Slurpee will come to be understood as history's greatest invention and not vaccines. There are no anti slurs out there.

I actually really I actually really like that drug. Uh, so where do we want to do where do we want to put these? How do we want to arrange them it doesn't really make sense to start out here and then move through in the way that they have. We do have a little bit about imagine the slurpees the future We'll have so we have the future we have the past here, that kind of makes sense. The Slurpee was invented in 1982. And nothing interesting has happened since it could be maybe scientists will deserve this or people coming to be understood history's greatest invention.

That's pretty interesting. So let's maybe move this here. On top of this, we already know what should go there because it doesn't make sense. It makes sense to go from the slavery was invented 1982. And maybe this liberal column to be understood as history's greatest invention makes sense to have these two kind of next to each other. I think it makes sense to have slurpees in the future after ones in the past.

I think that does make sense. And then this makes sense to divide history into pre and post Slurpee time reckoning, maybe between them actually. So we're gonna move that up here. We're gonna get rid of that one here. And I think that having these two move to the top before this actually makes more sense also. So let me go ahead and get rid of this.

Now we have a different Looking back, maybe the surgery will come to be understood as history's greatest invention, not vaccines. There are no anti slippers out there. That's cool. So it has to be greater than vaccines because no mothers are refusing to give their children slurpees slurpees were invented in 1982. And nothing interesting has happened since moon in 69. Last few missions here so it was invented no Mars mission.

Maybe if we had held off the Slurpee for a few years, we'd be on Mars. The Slurpee was the culmination of history. It's awesome technology that is exists to have it was so much better than literally everyone in the past. So it see here it flows along a little more logically a little more fluidly. In fact, you know, the fact that we have slurpees makes it literally better than everyone in the past. So there I can already that that's that setup, I've cut down tremendously, because we've already introduced the concepts here with a couple of different jokes.

So this is how this works. Now when we get to we have slurpees, we have slurpees. So we have it's so much better than everyone else. Literally in the past, people have always imagined slurpees since time immemorial, let's go cave paintings and France actually have recipes for celebrities, yada, yada, yada, we get the rest of that joke. Maybe scientists will divide history. So now that I've introduced the concept of slurpees in history, I've introduced slurpees here greatest invention, invented in 82, that introduces the idea of history.

And I talk about this joke, which is a little pun, p SNPs. That's kind of ridiculous. That's a little dad joke. And then imagine those slurpees the future would have so I'm actually moving through this pretty logically from a from a concept development standpoint. So what I want you to do is is, is once you edit your jokes individually to make them work, now, you want To start thinking about how can I introduce them in a way that makes sense to talk about onstage, it makes sense to go through this routine in the way that I did. If I had bounced around in it from just one to the other, it would be all over the place, this actually leads the audience's thinking in a way that that actually makes sense.

So go ahead and do the same with your material. Obviously, you want to build up to about five minutes of material it should be maybe two to three of these little bits where there are a handful of different jokes on one topic. You know, ultimately, your five minute pitch should have probably two, maybe even three topics. No more than that probably should be more than one though. So move through them and and arrange them in a way that makes sense. Even when you do this.

You might find that some jokes that you thought made sense here don't and maybe they need to be rewarded. You could find new ways to cut them down like I did. It's a really good way to tighten up your bits and routines.

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