Tag: monologue
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Joke About Squirrels and the Coronavirus
The joke: In New York City, there’s a new field hospital for coronavirus patients in Central Park. It has the squirrels so concerned that they’re rubbing Purell on their nuts. How I wrote it: This news item caught my eye because it had to do with Central Park. More on that later. To write the…
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How to Pick a Good News Item for Writing Jokes
Some news items are easier to write multiple jokes about than others. Monologue writers like those news items because cranking out several jokes about the same news item takes less time than hunting down other promising news items and then writing jokes about those. So what makes a news item a good candidate for multiple…
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Seth Meyers Did Not Steal My Joke
Ideas get stolen in show business all the time but less often than you might think. I teach a class in comedy writing for late-night TV. A couple of nights ago I was giving my students some practice in turning newspaper articles into monologue jokes. Toward the end of the session I mentioned an article…