HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT'S FUNNY?

I still don't know. LOL. It honestly is something that is hard to figure out sometimes, while other times, it just clicks right away. I have had things I spend days and months and years working on to make "funny" when other times, I accidentally say something in the moment on stage as a "riff" with an audience member that ends up being funnier that anything I have ever "written". For me, the best way to figure it out is repetition, trial and error and talking to other comedians.

Most recently, I had thought of something related to how people get upset when younger people don't know a band or an actor from before their time. I wondered how far that went back and started talking about it on stage last week and working it out on stage with an act out of a civil war veteran getting mad that his wife didn't know Stonewall Jackson. Now, a week and five attempts later, I have something that sometimes pops with a huge laugh and other times does not work as well but always seems to do okay. So I have to work out the wording, listen to it and tweak it to see what is the "funny". Trial and error.

Other times, I know or think something is so so funny but it doesn't work on stage so I have to figure out why the premise that I think is funny is not working on stage. Trial and error and error and error.

But I work all this out on stage during the week and try it out before the weekend, when it counts. This weekend you can see the final produce on this "Stonewall Jackson" joke at Sidesplitters in Tampa on Saturday or Sunday at Mccurdys Comedy Club in Sarasota. Get your tickets #laughs #standupcomedy #newjokes #formerlawyer