Quote: Tony Cowards @ September 7 2010, 2:08 AM BSTIf you don't mind me giving you a bit of advice Tuumble you need to identify which bit is the actual funny bit/punchline and then make every word in the joke serve to lead you to it, at the moment there's too much flim-flam which makes it complicated and confusing.
shorter, snappier and gets to the funny quicker and in a much more direct fashion.
This.
I was working with a guy the other week and he had some great material but the audience weren't really buying it. We sat and stripped the jokes down and they went across much better.
The stuff he had was good but it wasn't snappy enough for verbal delivery although it would have looked pretty good as-is when read e.g. in a book or on a website.
