Identity-Based Comedy and Comedic Persona — Ep. 002

Identity comedy.

Identity-based comedy.

Yeah.

All right.

Okay.

Which at first was like, I had weird notes and I think I thought about it wrong.

And it wasn't until like two days ago where I was like, Oh, I think I am a little more clear on

like, do you feel like your comedy is identity based?

Uh, what's interesting is like you could think that like on a joke per joke basis, it could be, I think that like, yeah, probably like when I do like, like parental jokes or kids about jokes about my kids, like that's identity comedy, right? I'm identifying as a disgruntled, disgruntled parent or a parent

in general.

Yeah.

It's personal to you.

Yeah.

I would think so then.

But could you not argue then that like every joke is just, identifying as you know the subject of that joke if I'm like I have like a couple jokes about like boomers and technology now my is that identity comics identity comedy about that or are you just saying like it has to be like more more about like the comedian and their kind of identity

yeah

Cause to me, like when I was going over bits, I was like, Oh, I like that bit.

That's funny.

That's interesting.

It's like, uh, touches on the identity of like, uh, like gun ownership.

But I'm like, that's not, that's just a joke.

I'm like, that's not really the comedian as a whole is like, that's, that's their thing, you know? Whereas like it, when I, like I was saying two days ago, I was like, Oh, Sebastian, uh, Maniscalco, Maniscalco.

Is that his name? Maniscalco.

I was like, Oh, that's identity.

That's like the, like the, the stereotypical like Italian identity that he does.