The Lesson on One Liners

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jan/17/tim-vine-one-liners

Tim Vine, stand-up comedian hsa just released a book which teaches the secrets of catchy one liners. They are the ones that stand out from the crowd of mediocre comedians that will have to rely on everyday jokes. Vine writes about fifteen new one liners everyday. He states that the jokes do not have to be particularly good, but have to turn things upside down. One liners are generally working for comedians that do not want to give themselves away. A lot of the time they cannot fill the entire show with one liners as the crowd will start to fall asleep. A good variation in the show seems required.

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One liner comedy is usually way better than other comedy. This mainly feels this way for me as I often dislike the topics discussed by 'regular' comedians. It seems noteworthy that too many one liners will get one bored after a while, but so does an entire show filled with jokes about sex/drugs, cultural differences and social problems do they not?