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Adam Ming
Mar 5, 2022
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So here’s the trick.

It’s harder than it looks.

The reason a comedian’s 3 minutes on a late-night show looks effortless, is because they practiced that exact routine a hundred times. And the routine itself has been pieced together from years of material that has been tested to work over thousands of gigs.

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Let’s reverse engineer it.

  1. Try a lot.

  2. Keep the best bits (which means discard the rest).

  3. Craft the best bits into something really special, spend a lot more time to make it than it takes to consume it.

That’s the trick.

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