The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.
I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That's the joy/horror of stand up - if you have the germ of an idea that you think might be funny, there is a way of finding out if it's funny very quickly.
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
