So for this presentation of setups, and the two types of setups to try to explain the concept of setups deeper, I decided to set up this little presentation that I want to give you. So here's the thing, setups and stuff setups and you How can you set up? What are setups? How did they set up punch lines? How does the actual structure of the deep language work such that you're going to deliver the punch line? How does it actually set it up?

And here's how, remember how I went through this series of lists that you went through you first made the list of facts, then you made the list of questions, then you turn those questions into setups. Those questions are meaningful because there are two types of setups there are implied questions and inherent questions. So essentially, what you have to understand is that every setup is asking a question it's it's implying a question or bringing up a space in the mind of the audience that a question occupies So a question actually sets up the the answer, which will be the punch line. That's how setups and punchlines work together. So here's some implied questions. I'm just gonna go ahead and use the premise we've been working with, which is it's awesome that we have the technology to have slurpees it's awesome that we have the technology to have slurpees.

That's not a question. That's a statement. That's a it's a discursive statement of opinion. It's a it's a, what you might call a an analytical statement, I think, according to David Hume, if you wanted to jump into the deep language, but if we keep going, I say it's awesome that we have technology have therapies, there's some implied questions that come out of this one. How awesome is it that we have the technology to have slurpees? That's an implied question.

It's awesome. Well, how awesome is it and you can think about this. Rodney Dangerfield is a good example that he used to deliver jokes where he would go and get no respect, no respect at all. And then the question obviously, is how little respect Do you get Or, or it was so bad, then the audience goes, How bad was it? That's the implied question that they're bringing up. It's awesome that we have technology have slurpees How awesome is it that we have technology to have slurpees?

But you don't necessarily have to take that question. It's not always the first one that's on answer. And sometimes setups don't work well, because the comedian won't properly set up the punch line, because the implied question that the comedian is answering is not lined up with the question that the audience gets from the setup. So meaning the answer that I'm giving is not the question that's being asked or implied in the actual setup. So some of the other implied questions that we might want to think about when we're writing punchlines for this setup are, how much worse Could it be if we didn't have that technology? It's awesome that we have the technology to have slurpees.

But how much worse Could it be if we didn't have that technology and you could even add this in slightly into the edge of this setup, when refining and revising your materials awesome that we have Scott technology have slurpees because it could be way worse. That's a way to set this up. It could be way worse. The implied question, of course now immediately becomes how much worse could it be? And then we write punch lines that outline how much worse it could be the third one here, how much worse was it in the past that they didn't have slurpees. So it could be worse, it must have been worse in the past.

So we could say it's awesome that we have the technology to move slippies today, it was way worse in the past. They didn't even have that technology. That's another implied question. And you can see I'm starting to point at punch lines. This is the punch line show to emerge naturally out of setups. And we're going to show you here when I get into inherent questions, some punch lines that sort of come up naturally.

Finally, another implied question, how much better are slurpees than other technology? So you can see here let's go back to the language language is very important in comedy, we can see it's awesome that we have the technology to have slurpees well done. Technology is important to that. So how much better are slurpees than other technology. But it's awesome that we have the technology to make slurpees it blows that we have technology to make atomic bombs. That's a punch line right there.

I just came up with one on the fly. So then there are inherent questions or what I might call explicit questions. These are questions that you just ask when you're on stage. Jerry Seinfeld famously had this bit about the buggy, the moon buggy, there's a car on the moon, why do we need a car on the god damn moon? That's a question in itself is maybe a punchline because of his delivery and the absurdness of the question, but it's just asking the question directly, it's an inherent explicit question. So let's just go with this one.

How awesome are slurpees? That's a straight up setup. You have to answer it pretty directly. It doesn't always imply an answer. I don't have any punch lines that come to mind when I say how awesome are slurpees I would say slurpees are not very awesome because they have a lot of high fructose corn syrup. In They can hurt you.

You ever gotten a brain freeze? That's not awesome. So that's one way to answer that question. It's asked directly and I answered it directly. Unfortunately, that's not a very funny joke, although it does have the structure of a joke. Do you know how much worse it could be without slurpees?

I get asked that directly to the crowd. So I could say, let's just return to this for one setup. It's awesome that we have the technology to make slurpees because we could not have it it's it's it's not an you know, it's not an inevitability that we got the technology to make slurpees that's a setup. Do you know how much worse it could be without slurpees? That's a different kind of setup, and it's asking a different question, but each of them are using the same route. Do you know how many lamer things have been invented than slurpees and then right here, I just decided to imply the punchline mustard gas, the Baby shark, song racism, all three of those things are pretty awful and were all invented and are also lamer than slurpees.

So before the audience thinks slurpees are pretty lame. Just remember That they're better than mustard gas. Okay. Although you could make a mustard gas Slurpee which would maybe be maybe does that even out? Does that come out in the middle between mustard gas and slurpees? I don't know if celebrities are like an eight on the scale of awesome and mustard gas is a one does a mustard gas Slurpee meet in the middle?

I guess if somebody had to ask me. Would you like to get mustard gas or would you like a mustard gas Slurpee? I think I'd probably go I think I'll take the mustard gas Slurpee. Alright. Anyway, that's called riffing. By the way.

That's writing on stage. You're my audience. I just did it. Just go back to that writing lesson. All right. Finally, some other inherent questions.

How unlucky are people from the past to be born before slurpees? That's a direct question. You can ask the audience and it's a setup instead of delicious frozen corn syrup. They got the black plague and famine. That's pretty. That's pretty sad.

I think that's kind of funny myself because it's an accident of history that we happen to be born after slurpees or or live in a Post slavery world the slavery was invented during the lifetime of some people listening to this, but many of you who are of Generation Z or the millennials, you grew up with slurpees. And you could have easily been born in a time before, let's say, antibiotics, and instead you were born in a time of slurpees. So Lucky you, you've won the historical lottery. Anyway, these are the types of setups and the one thing that I really want you to take away from this presentation in this bit is that it's important to understand all setups, ask questions, and punch lines, answer those questions, whether it's explicit and inherent, or it's implied. All punch lines answer those questions. We will be getting into punch lines in the next unit, baby