Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation

When I first started listening to comedy in college, there was definitely an interest trying it out. Could I do that? Even though I was open to writing, songwriting, architecture, and basically anything, comedy felt like the one craft that was untouchable. It’s hyper-vulnerable. The artifacts are fused with the person and the whole thing is judged

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I wonder if all jokes boil down to the same pattern that eventually gets layered and complexified by veteran comedians. A joke is made by creating a frame with an embedded assumption, and then using a punchline to break the frame and reveal an implied truth. There are two layers of subtext, the assumption (the undertone), and the post-punchline tru

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