So the first real meat of this course, writing Well, before we even get into it, I should say the writing bit on this course comes before the technical explanation of jokes specifically. So stand up comedy is about a couple of different things about writing jokes about telling stories, writing stories, but really, it's really about one thing, which is just being in front of an audience and making them laugh. It's about doing whatever you got to do in front of an audience to make them laugh. And many different comedians call that writing. A lot of them will call that jokes. I mean, technically, if you were to push me on it and say, What is the stand up comedian do I go?

Well, the stand up comedian tells and writes jokes. But especially lately, there's a lot of comedians who don't necessarily just tell him write jokes you can think of Zach Galifianakis, you can think of Bo Burnham a little bit. They're comedians who do lots of different types of things on stage that you might say are not necessarily classically, jokes are classically stories. Now, maybe you want to be one of those people. Maybe that's how your brain Thanks and stand up comedy in a little bit is is that process of figuring out what it is you're actually doing to be funny what it is your brain is doing to interpret funny. So after you've done a lot of research, which by now hopefully you've done, you are going to get a sense of it.

So what I want to offer in this particular point before we go on to talk about jokes specifically, is the nature of writing and the process of writing and what writing is and why comedians do it, how I do it, and hopefully how you can do it. Now, the writing process, ultimately I should say is whatever it is you figure it out to be for yourself. So for some comedians, like a guy who has big influence on me, Mike green, that processes him getting up on stage and just talking through things until they're funny. Sometimes that Bill Burr, I would say does the same thing. Sometimes it's sitting down and actually crafting jokes very specifically and meticulously until they're almost perfect and rehearsing them and getting them on stage, Dimitri Martin does that. But for each comedian, it's different.

And you have to figure out what your process is. Now, if that sounds a little bit difficult for you, if you're somebody who's a, let's say, a technical type, maybe you're a computer programmer or something like this, and you're like, Oh, my gosh, this course isn't going to teach me anything about how to do this, technically, hold on, hold on, it will. I'm going to get into a process for writing, I'm going to get into a process that you can use that works with everybody who I teach you to. But the reason I say this originally is because your process might be different. So I don't want to tell you that there's one writing process. There is one writing process, and that's whatever process works for you.

So before we get into technically how jokes are written, I want to talk you through writing, show you how I write and show you different methods for writing and when we get into joke writing specifically, which comes before editing in this course, and there's a reason why I'm going to walk you through the writing process. So if you can't for some reason in your brain handle learning writing before learning specifically jokes, go ahead and watch the joke course first. But this one is for writing, getting in the habit of writing, understanding, good writing and understanding how writing is relevant to ultimately doing five minutes of comedy in front of an audience on stage, which you will be doing at the end of this course. So thank you. Let's dive into it.