The next lesson we're going to talk about in rehearsing is inflection. So inflection is just changing or modifying your voice a little bit to put a little more emphasis on one word or another. So this works in many different ways. One of the punch lines it's definitely involved with is understatement. So if you're saying, Oh man, Donald Trump is a great president, you can all hear that I changed my inflection a little bit there. Now, as you go through your material, you tighten it up, you edit it together, what you want to do is find moments where you can add inflection that will reinforce the emotions you're trying to deliver in a punch line.
So if we go back to a joke and say, slurpees would be great in the UN, because they need to, they could have a super machine in the lunchroom every every country could have their own Slurpee. You could see I'm excited going through it. Now if I start going through and I'm going you know, it would be amazing is India could have curry. That's immediately boop, I'm dropping the energy. Now if the punch line was things are going to be great and then you and then Reinforce how bad something is going to be because of the inflection you're putting on your words, it reinforces the emotional delivery of the punch line, and the audience is going to get that. So the way that I do this, when I go through my materials, I mark it up by using italics or underlining to reinforce which words I want to perform in which way when I rehearse, so I would encourage you to do that also, is when you read through your material, rehearse saying a word one way or another, just a little bit.
And you don't have to do it too much, because this will come out naturally on stage. But the helpful thing is that will help you internalize where you want to take it. Now maybe in the moment, you're going to want to make a different decision, that's totally fine. But being able to have that rehearsal is going to reinforce that muscle memory so that when you're on stage, you can actually deliver those words in the way that you had intended. So go back through your material, rehearse again, I know this is the third time now but you're gonna have to do it. A lot.
Those exact wording slowly with pauses and now with different emphasis. Go back and do it.