1 Mar 2026 12:07 pm
Cannonpointer » 01 Mar 2026, 3:03 am » wrote: ↑ I will share something else that comics do when they chill in green rooms after shows - or in bars or waffle houses.
They write jokes.
Not formally. There's no spoken agreement. But what happens is, you tell the war stories, and the conversation flows, and the next thing that happens is that someone speaks an excellent punchline. Immediately, everyone knows that a punchline was just born. And the cool thing is that the guy who spoke it doesn't own it. The room owns it. It's considered a product of the group - not a product of whoever spoke it. And there will be this immediate silence, and then someone will say, "That's so and so's." And then the members of the group will think about that guy's act, laugh, and agree. OIr else someone will say, "**** that - that's mine." Or, "That's Bob's." And everyone will stop, look up to summon THAT guy's act, and then laugh like hell and say yeah that's yours or that's Bob's.
A million punch lines have been born that way, and those punch lines never, ever belong to anyone until ownership has been assigned by the group. And I have never once seen a disagreement in assigning title of a punchline.
I used to do comedy, by the way.
Did you play any big rooms?