Two things are common ground in books that purport to teach you how to be a stand-up comic.
No-one can be taught to be funny, only how to turn their innate comedic sensibility into art.1
On the received model, the spigot of humour is turned on or off by the time one hits the age of reason. Its setting can’t be changed—there are no comedic plumbers—but the …
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