Watch this short video...you'll enjoy it and learn something.
https://laughingsquid.com/dissecting-louis-c-k-joke/
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Very Carlinesque. Carlin wanted his act to look like he was just riffing extemporaneously on a theme, but he actually spent hours crafting his act to use the precisely correct word and intonation at every point.
ReplyDeleteAs big a production as that is these days–Carlin typically works 2,000- to 5,000-seat venues, such as Anaheim's Celebrity Theatre, where he performs Friday--no detail is too small. Especially when it comes to writing his routines.
As you might expect, a guy who has built his career, in part, around pointing out the quirks and inconsistencies of the English language–as well as some folks' curious use and abuse of language through euphemisms, oxymorons and obfuscations–pays particular attention to word choice and clarity in his own work.
In crafting a bit, Carlin considers all manner of minutiae, right down to something such as selecting a specific numeral that's incidental to the joke: "There was something I was doing recently and I settled on the number nine for it--not so much that nine is a funny number; it isn't.
articles.latimes.com - George Carlin Sees His Act as Still 'Showing Off' for the Nuns