Lesson 15 · Improv moves · 6 min · Escalation
Find the game
Spot the one funny pattern and play it
The big ideaEvery funny situation has a “game”: the one unusual thing that's funny about it. Once you see it, you can repeat and twist it. Miss it and you're just saying random stuff.
Watch the pro do it
Watch forThe whole sketch is one game: football players introduce themselves with increasingly absurd names. Once you spot the game, you can predict the shape of every line, and it's still funny because each name tops the last.
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