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Mike Lukas

Stand-up comedian (NBC, Comedy Central, Second City), author of "Finding Your Funny Muscle," and host of the Funny Muscle Podcast.

Apr 30, 2025

8:52
I didn't think of that one, but that's good.
8:54
It's there as you can have it.
8:56
The thing that I teach that would help someone like you who's used to doing wordplay and then now going into a different realm is the 36 Humor Heightening Devices.
9:07
There's all these, the pro comics use all these humor heightening devices, things like, well, exaggeration and sarcasm are basic ones, but like things like contrast where they, like they do it this way in Cleveland, but they do it that way in LA.
9:20
I did it this way when I was a kid and now I do it this way when I'm an adult.
9:23
Extension, which is like, as long as this is true, then why not that? There's cut forward to and cut back to.
9:30
There's 36 of them, irony and callbacks.

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Whereas

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