Learning from Stand-Up

This 500-word satire celebrates stand-up comics as both masochists and prophets. It follows a fictional screenwriter who studies stand-up by hiding in green rooms and judging timing with a stopwatch. Features fake advice from a jaded veteran: �Write like nobody�s laughing, because they won�t be.� Mocks overanalysis with a scene where a newbie explains a knock-knock joke using Marxist theory. Ends with: �Stand-up is the only profession where bombing is part of the r�sum�.� HOW TO WRITE COMEDY: https://comedywriter.info/learning-from-stand-up/ AND http://comedywriter.info/