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		<title>Three Steps To Another Punch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONCE YOU HAVE A JOKE, YOU CAN ADD MORE PUNCHES. Here&#8217;s one way to do that. This technique is actually Steps Three to Five of the Five Steps To Funny process. You use the punchline to your original joke as a setup: look for expectations to shatter, then come up with a substitute expectation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Steps To Funny</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OFTEN PEOPLE SAY THAT THEIR HUMOUR IS SPONTANEOUS and that a structured process for generating humour feels too contrived. Spontaneous humour is great; unfortunately it doesn’t always happen. Think of the structured process that I’m about to show you as a form of ‘prepared spontaneity’. You prepare so well that, to your audience, your humour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stand Up Comedy Formula</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAVID GRANIRER, PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND STAND UP COMIC, shares more of his comedy writing tips.   Humour = Exaggeration and/or surprise This is the basic formula for writing stand-up comedy. In general, humour involves exaggeration and/or surprise. For something to be funny there must be some sort of surprise twist and/or exaggeration of reality. If the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Props Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOLLOWING UP ON A PREVIOUS ARTICLE IN HIS EZINE, on the use of props to connect with people (and used here to highlight comedic connection in life and in the writing of stand-up comedy), psychotherapist and stand-up comic, David Granirer, writes: &#160; I wrote about the use of props, in this case giggle balls (soft [...]]]></description>
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