How to Write a Joke in 1-2-3

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  • čas přidán 18. 03. 2013
  • You can learn more in Jerry's eBook "Breaking Comedy's D.N.A." available for instant download here: www.standupcomedyclinic.com/br...
    Learn stand up comedy online by learning the science behind the laughter. In this video Jerry covers the 9 triggers for human laughter. Learning comedy from a scientific point of view will help you better understand comedy and give you tools to approach comedy with better understand and a more systematic approach rather than just hoping something is funny.
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Komentáře • 85

  • @ImagineBaggins
    @ImagineBaggins Před 4 lety +74

    0:49 1. Surprise
    0:57 2. Embarassment
    1:05 3. Recognition
    1:48 4. Incongruity
    2:59 5. Superiority
    3:18 6. Release
    3:31 7. Configurational
    5:35 8. Ambivalence
    Number 9 was tickling which would be really god damn weird. Don't tickle your audience, creeps.

    • @ericpagel826
      @ericpagel826 Před 2 lety +9

      Dont tell me how to harass my audience

    • @delstanley1349
      @delstanley1349 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Number 9 (Tickling) Should Be included.
      Question: How does a man know if a woman is ticklish?
      Answer: He gives her a.... couple of test-tickles!

  • @facethestrange15yearsago81
    @facethestrange15yearsago81 Před 6 lety +49

    No tickling? That's half my act out the window.

  • @lizzie0hair
    @lizzie0hair Před 8 lety +17

    In the less than ten minutes it took to watch your video, I've been able to refine my comedy writing more than in several years of writing classes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I finally feel comfortable taking the next step in my career. Xo

  • @rounak.rsakhare5946
    @rounak.rsakhare5946 Před rokem +2

    underrated

  • @MegaKarume
    @MegaKarume Před 9 lety +3

    Thank you so much Jerry for what you are doing to all of us...you have rekindled my dream of one day working in the comedy industry...

  • @CarlosLopez-ko8xm
    @CarlosLopez-ko8xm Před 2 lety +3

    My first resource for starting puppet humor was your video. Great reference! Thank you.

  • @robertrodriguez5553
    @robertrodriguez5553 Před 7 lety +2

    Thanks jerry its great to hear someone actually teaching the craft of of comedy.

  • @touchthemicmondays5957
    @touchthemicmondays5957 Před 8 lety +1

    for such a short video this is amazing so far and I'm only 5 minutes in! thank you!

  • @mustafasaed7766
    @mustafasaed7766 Před 2 lety +2

    Jerry rules!

  • @thatdunncrowd9333
    @thatdunncrowd9333 Před 7 lety

    Great video. Thank you very much. I'm hoping to start bringing some comedy to my future shows and your triggers presented here are excellent.

  • @Kev80ification
    @Kev80ification Před 3 lety

    Brilliant! I love this guy, great teacher!

  • @jonathanriosnavarro1899

    Great video! Thank you so much for making this

  • @negi2u
    @negi2u Před 7 lety

    Thank you!!! I am a new learner and glad to know these tools....

  • @terremoto991
    @terremoto991 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for this info

  • @TheNameJohnny
    @TheNameJohnny Před 8 lety

    Very sweet video my dude!

  • @vijaysingh-qb8si
    @vijaysingh-qb8si Před 3 lety

    Thank you for teaching us

  • @SirSmokeAlot8866
    @SirSmokeAlot8866 Před 9 lety +1

    You just seem like the best guy ever! xD Nice vid!

  • @teyo7054
    @teyo7054 Před 7 lety

    thank you so much

  • @alvaroplol
    @alvaroplol Před 2 lety +1

    i love u jerry

  • @1Mbernstein
    @1Mbernstein Před 9 lety +13

    Really impressed by this - thanks so much for your great content.
    Question for you, Jerry: does looking at comedy as a science take away some of its human appeal? When you begin labeling types of jokes, types of laughter, and cycling through combinations of laughter elements, do you reduce comedy to a less genuine, more formulaic product? For this reason, might your approach be more appropriate for improv, where algorithms are more necessary for quick-witted responses, or do you think it's just as applicable for stand-up?

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před 7 lety +19

      Great question! I would say, for the short term the analytical side of anything can affect your freestyle creativity, but when it just becomes a part of you, you'll find that you really expand as a comic. Because you know all the Triggers and Structures inherently it makes it easier to be even funnier in the moment. I hope that makes sense. I took tennis lessons. When the pro changed my grip it was totally awkward, but after I got used to it I got so much better so much faster.

  • @emilioroman7065
    @emilioroman7065 Před 8 lety

    Great info Jerry! Thanks for the insights...I'm a sponge!

  • @thinkthoughtsforhours6052

    jerry can you make a video explaining the 13 comedy structures. double entendre, surprise etc

  • @jonathanriosnavarro1899

    ill be buying your ebook

  • @ayevarayan4353
    @ayevarayan4353 Před 10 lety +3

    Thank yu very much sir..
    I olso ,actually comedy is portion i mean i have too much talents on comedy,but right now i am just looking for oportunity just to be on stage.

  • @motherpandayourconfusedmom

    I am so glad this auto played 🙏💙 thanks for the tips homie!!

  • @randomdude6719
    @randomdude6719 Před 2 lety

    I like how he demonstrates suprise by removing tickling cause of its irrelevance

  • @chuckgoldberg3656
    @chuckgoldberg3656 Před rokem +1

    Jerry, love the material, but one suggestion: You really should reshoot this so you can give a joke example after each trigger. Examples will bring each point more to life. Reminds me somewhat of when I read English grammar rules. Each rule gave me the info, but it wasn't until I saw it used in the example sentence that I fully comprehended it.

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před rokem

      Good point. I will take it into consideration

  • @obdurateservices9424
    @obdurateservices9424 Před 5 lety

    Hello sir, thank you so much so the knowledge you shared with us.
    I didn't get the fourth one, do you mind explaining it?
    I will be very grateful to you.
    THANKS
    Love from india

  • @arjunchopra13
    @arjunchopra13 Před 10 lety

    thank you sir

  • @sriharshak7814
    @sriharshak7814 Před 10 lety

    very nyc sir

  • @hutzyfilms
    @hutzyfilms Před 3 měsíci

    Does Jerry have a podcast?

  • @eucelebridade4651
    @eucelebridade4651 Před 8 lety

    Hi Jerry, great video. I'm a brazilian actress and never wrote comedy before but want to. I'm having a hard time finding resources in portuguese. Do you think I could use your ebook as well? Even not having previous experience?
    Thanks!!!
    Carol

  • @entertainment326
    @entertainment326 Před 11 měsíci

    Thankyou

  • @dooleydavid9999
    @dooleydavid9999 Před 7 lety

    Thx Jerry. excuse the question: what is the e book!? i m subscribed on you tube , however i don't find links to other things you offer!!?? im from israel so maybe they r not available

  • @JeffTanis
    @JeffTanis Před 11 lety

    Nice plug for the e-book, but you didn't tell us the name of the e-book or how to get it! So was that the tenth comedy element - Omission

  • @josephwebb7220
    @josephwebb7220 Před rokem

    Today is my first time ever doing stand-up comedy if they let me I’m so scared but I’m gonna go out there relax do my best learn something and try to raise the people up thanks Jerry thanks Reggie rice thanks mom dad God and customers consumers me and you

  • @MichaelSmith-jw8qw
    @MichaelSmith-jw8qw Před 9 lety

    Jerry Corley is brilliant! Study this video if you want to be funny!

  • @badbluebad
    @badbluebad Před 7 lety

    could you do audio book please because dyslexia

  • @iamatomiczombie
    @iamatomiczombie Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks so much. I'm now combing through your content like a meth head amputee with a salad fork prosthetic. I'm 40 years old and have set myself the goal of doing comedy, on stage in front of a breathing audience, before I turn 41. I'm horrified. And really excited about it. If you had ANY specific advice I would absolutely pay attention.

    • @Ishbikes
      @Ishbikes Před rokem

      How did it go?

    • @WrekWarship
      @WrekWarship Před 9 měsíci

      Did you do it? Hope it went well! I'm working on my 1st set now. Hoping to hit an open mic in a couple of months

  • @Observ45er
    @Observ45er Před 5 lety

    Like The character in The Martian, Mark Watney on Mars, as an engineer I can really appreciate sciencing the shit out of comedy !

  • @ChrisPearson1337
    @ChrisPearson1337 Před 11 lety +1

    The explanation for the "homophobia" joke was funny, as well as the joke itself. Intentional or not, it is some measure of comedy in its very explicableness. Am I making sense? I'm struggling to explain that here. Anyway, it was all good stuff and I appreciate your insights.

  • @muddypalmsera
    @muddypalmsera Před 6 lety +2

    #9 Laughter _(triggers laughter)_ .

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před 6 lety

      Arené Lomax Good point. Unless you’re the one being laughed at.

  • @landralann1862
    @landralann1862 Před 3 lety +1

    I want to be a comedy writer because I would probably cry if people laughed at me onstage. 🥁🔔

  • @gigipinwill9177
    @gigipinwill9177 Před rokem

    How do I access ebook please? Thanks, Gigi

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před rokem +1

      Hi Gigi, you can get the book here:
      www.standupcomedyclinic.com/breakthrough-comedy-writing-system/

  • @JohnBrislinLive
    @JohnBrislinLive Před 9 lety +1

    I do political talk radio. Do you think that pushing myself to try stand-up comedy would help? I live in Las Vegas which offers a pretty good laboratory. What would you recommend I do. I like your videos very much, btw.

  • @nickhawkins7682
    @nickhawkins7682 Před 4 lety

    Tickling is the Pluto of laughing triggers, it might count but it got kicked out anyway

  • @efrainrodarte6395
    @efrainrodarte6395 Před 10 lety

    thats actually a pretty good joke

  • @peterstyles5567
    @peterstyles5567 Před 10 lety +2

    You forgot to refer to Relativity, which in your last joke you referred to several times
    (How homophobia is relative to the discussion of phobias.)

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před 9 lety +1

      Hi Peter. This whole online format has changed so this is the first time I'm seeing these comments. Relativity is incongruity. There are no truly Universal Comedy Structures, so relativity is associative comedy. It's the comedy created by associating one idea to another by using "is-like" or a similar structure in your dialogue. Bill Burr uses this when he says, "The guy that works at Home Depot wants to bang as many hot chicks as a celebrity does, but he can't because chicks don't dig lumber." That's a great example of hiding the structure of "is-like."

    • @touchthemicmondays5957
      @touchthemicmondays5957 Před 8 lety

      +Jerry Corley lmao. chocks don't dog lumber!

  • @queengsexya8218
    @queengsexya8218 Před rokem

    I'm new in this comedy game. Like performing on stage. My question is is it okay to use the audience as part of your stand-up comment.. and is it okay to use personal things that's in your family that contain to you. Only reason I'm asking is. I have a uncle that's white I have 2 months that's mixed I have couple gay cousins in my family and two of them turn yourself into a woman so is that okay for me to talk about especially if they in my family. I am parsley blind and in a wheelchair

  • @antoniogallotta4976
    @antoniogallotta4976 Před rokem

    Nice of Charlie Harper to leave Jerry his wardrobe in his will when he got killed off two and a half men

  • @chrisgorman3821
    @chrisgorman3821 Před 5 lety

    What about ken Dodd

  • @nanowhit
    @nanowhit Před 6 lety

    What better way to involve the audience than to tickle them?

  • @kevinlacy5814
    @kevinlacy5814 Před 10 lety

    i really how to learn how to be comedian-
    I thought was comedian, until they told me to tell a Joke, and draw a picture of my favorite comedian. they told to tell joke, but I two serious tell a joke. than a woman ask to tell a joke, because my mind was on my money.

  • @puddintame7794
    @puddintame7794 Před 9 měsíci

    They say comedy is a science... in the cumquat quarterly.

  • @purebiology4599
    @purebiology4599 Před 3 lety

    Sir pls react to indian standup comedian

  • @heathkitchen4315
    @heathkitchen4315 Před 5 lety

    Laughter Triggers:
    1. Surprise
    2. Embarrassment
    3. Recognition
    4. Incongruity
    5. Superiority
    6. Release
    7. Configurational
    8. Ambivalence
    (9.) Tickling*
    *Not suitable for all audiences.

  • @facethestrange15yearsago81

    What's the deal with packing peanuts? You never get em on airplanes and elephants won't eat then unless you force them. What's the deal with airport elephants?

  • @diceyending4622
    @diceyending4622 Před rokem

    I disagree. If you time the tickling right after the punchline it really heightens the laughter. Especially on a weak joke.

  • @nestormachvo
    @nestormachvo Před 4 lety

    what would be the fear of having something above you? Christianity?

  • @inquilabzindabad562
    @inquilabzindabad562 Před 6 lety +3

    Those who need to be told these basic things dont deserve to be standup comics

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před 6 lety +1

      Aimim fan You’re an idiot

    • @inquilabzindabad562
      @inquilabzindabad562 Před 6 lety

      LOL! Jerry.

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před 6 lety +7

      There are a ton of beginners who don’t know this and experienced people that run into writer’s block or simply tell stories with an idea and a suitcase full of hope that the story will be funny. Showing this simple example can help.
      Also, you’d be amazed at how many comics that are working don’t know this concept, because they’ve never taken the time to explore what triggers laughter and how to structure a story so it pulls those triggers.

    • @inquilabzindabad562
      @inquilabzindabad562 Před 6 lety

      Ok Jerry. Fair Enough

    • @Observ45er
      @Observ45er Před 5 lety

      Some of us think of these things in different words, but I see parallels with things I am familiar with....

  • @modsoul1
    @modsoul1 Před měsícem

    I think I've discovered I don't like standup comedy.

  • @chunkk5426
    @chunkk5426 Před rokem

    Is 40 too old for beginning stand up

    • @JerryCorley
      @JerryCorley  Před rokem +2

      I have a friend who started at 53. He works full-time doing cruises now.