Playfully Inappropriate by Jared Volle

Author:Jared Volle [Volle, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1. Break a social norm?

2. Embarrass myself/another

3. Create a misunderstanding?

4. Reveal too much information

5. Be a little “too true”

6. Insult myself

7. Put-down a bad guy

8. Retaliate

9. Be sarcastic

10. Parody a known source

11. Be ironic

12. Create an analogy

13. Use wordplay (pun, etc.)

14. be a huge exaggeration

15. be a huge understatement (+specificity)

16. Compare & contrast

17. Prove/disprove an opinion

18. Contradict yourself/another

19. Callback to an earlier joke

20. Break the audience's assumptions with a…

1. Who-Shift

2. What-Shift

3. Where-Shift

4. When-Shift

5. Why-Shift

6. How-Shift

Ray Romano: Thanksgiving Football

Let’s go back to our Romano example to see how he went from the Why Problem to a punchline.

Here’s a recap of what we already know.

1 - COMEDIC TENSION: He created Comedic Tension in the setup…

They put football on during Thanksgiving.

I don’t want to be rude, but I want to watch the game.

We made a compromise during dinner.

We put the TV on (BUT) without the volume.

Now I have to pretend that I’m paying attention to my family.

2 - HIGHLIGHT PROBLEM: He found a specific reason why the Comedic Tension mattered.

Why Problem: If I’m not careful pretending, I might do or say something rude.

3 - MAGNIFY PROBLEM: He then took the Why Problem and found ways to magnify it so that the slow, small, generic, low-tension problem became fast, big, specific, and high-tension.

Why Problem (Magnified)/Joke Premise: I accidentally say something horrible to my grandmother.

At this point, we don’t yet know what the punchline IS, but we know what the punchline DOES.

Regardless of the words used for the actual punchline, the humor will come from accidentally saying something horrible to his grandmother.

4 - PLAYFULLY INAPPROPRIATE JUXTAPOSITION: Since the process for creating Comedic Tension and Comedic Conflict are the same, all we have to do is take our current material and add another Exploration + But Statement, Conflict Question, or use a PIJ-Q. All three techniques can result in the same punchline, though some are much easier. For each punchline below I’ll list a potential But Statement, Conflict Question, or PIJ-Q that could have been used to arrive at the same punchline.

PUNCHLINE #1: I accidentally yell “pass the gravy!”

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