An average week for me, but with a higher level of aggravation for me. I'm seeing a lot of my topics used, but the punchlines go off kilter. I mean, there was a joke about Tucker Carlson losing his big, important documents in the mail. Everyone heard about it. I wrote a couple of punchlines;
-Oh, well, back to just making things up.
-Apparently along with Trump's healthcare plan, stimulus package and tax returns.
-Man, that Postmaster General can't get nothing right.
So how do they rewrite the joke? With a line about the dog eating the report, just like every third tweet and post online. And a shout-out to the Canadian girlfriend thing.
Look, there was a thing I learned, from actual comedy people, that you don't go with the first idea that pops into your head, because, odds are, it popped into everyone else's head, too. And I really try to do that, I try to let a premise rattle around in my skull until I can figure out how to come at it from a different angle. That's why I like working on ComedyWire, I get to see how other people's minds work and to see who else came up with my kind of punchline. And avoid it. Do I get too obscure or inside? I don't know. But I feel like I'm making an effort above and beyond and it's just not being noticed.
It was a trying week also, because I got nothing in for the first two nights. Zip. Finally starting on Wednesday, I started seeing variations on my material, so, I'm including those.
And, as per usual, TMI: Daily is on the TMI: Hollywood Facebook Page weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time). And here's my contributions for last week:
-Oh, well, back to just making things up.
-Apparently along with Trump's healthcare plan, stimulus package and tax returns.
-Man, that Postmaster General can't get nothing right.
So how do they rewrite the joke? With a line about the dog eating the report, just like every third tweet and post online. And a shout-out to the Canadian girlfriend thing.
Look, there was a thing I learned, from actual comedy people, that you don't go with the first idea that pops into your head, because, odds are, it popped into everyone else's head, too. And I really try to do that, I try to let a premise rattle around in my skull until I can figure out how to come at it from a different angle. That's why I like working on ComedyWire, I get to see how other people's minds work and to see who else came up with my kind of punchline. And avoid it. Do I get too obscure or inside? I don't know. But I feel like I'm making an effort above and beyond and it's just not being noticed.
It was a trying week also, because I got nothing in for the first two nights. Zip. Finally starting on Wednesday, I started seeing variations on my material, so, I'm including those.
And, as per usual, TMI: Daily is on the TMI: Hollywood Facebook Page weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time). And here's my contributions for last week:
