Sell 1 Joke

The business skill of comedy. And Standup

Comedy is what’s for breakfast

Standup comedy is a critical business skill in Silicon Valley- key takeaways

✅ adversarial in nature

One microphone 60 people is adversarial competitive confrontational and embattled

✅ able to listen while talking

True story can you talk and read body language

Read micro facial expressions

Read tonality and side conversations

✅ structure on the fly

Everyone has a plan for their “tight five minutes” until they meet the market

Does the audience connect

Do you adjust your content when the feedback takes you in a certain direction

✅ it’s like toastmasters but realistic

Standup comedy is like toastmasters. Toastmasters even has an exercise

The humorous keynote

Toastmasters is free. This WordPress article was free at duck9

✅ comedy is the interruption of the expected

Hone the laughs

Time the unexpected

Take them through the twists

Spoil the plotting

Tidal wave the energy

Orgasm your listeners brains’

✅ Sell 1 Joke

Sell me this pen

Sell one thing once.

You laughed. You wanna buy that joke? $5!!

✅ if your contents any good, people would steal it

You’ve made a significant step when someone buys one joke from you

✅ acting chops

✅ mimicking delivery and honing supplemental laughs on top of a prior joke

✅ callbacks. Call backs are just “expansion on a prior”. Call-backs earn you calls you back to book you

✅ bombing.

Bombing a set is one micro hair away from slayyyyyyying. #AnxietyMaxxxxxxing

✅ #AnxietyMaxxxxxxing

Doing five minutes. 5 minutes is a practice not a perfection

✅ They Don’t Pay You to be an artist, they pay you to distribute

See my last comedic piece Duck9 the website wwww duck9 dot com: “What They Don’t Teach You at CBRE”

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