Alice Fraser
Guest"So say, for example, if I’m to tell a joke about what happened in the news today, even if people don’t know that news story, the joke still has to work."
— Alice Fraser | DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
2021
DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
What can screenwriters learn from the storytelling techniques used by stand-up comedians?
Listen you want to understand how stand-up comedians grip audiences and build emotional arcs (and what narrative tools screenwriters can borrow from comedy)!
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Standup comedians can keep audiences gripped to their every word for over an hour, and often bring them to emotional climaxes by the end. So how do they do it and what tools can apply to scripted narratives… →
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AI✦The episode examines how comedians in NANETTE, BABY COBRA, and INSIDE reach emotional climaxes by grounding their humor in authentic vulnerability and thematic honesty rather than just gags.✦
"And I think certainly in Nanette, Hannah Gadsby has comments on the fact that she has been using jokes as a distancing mechanism, as a way to distance herself from her traumatic experience, a way of rewriting those traumatic experiences, a way of getting the dig in before other people do."
— Alice Fraser | DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!