Ep. 50 - Weddings Ft. Bret Raybould

We are gathered here today to celebrate the fact that weddings... are hilarious.

You would never tell the bride, who has dreamed of her special day her entire life, that her wedding is funny... but there really are so many things about weddings that are worth laughing about. And the world's first publicly traded comic Bret Raybould joins David and Steve to talk about all of the reasons why. Though we do get lost in the ins and outs of stand-up along the way, it just proves that being committed to one topic, to have and to hold from this day forward, till death do you part... is funny.

By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you listener and podcast. You may press the play button.

In this episode, we talk about:

-The most mundane, harmless thing anyone has been offended by / 

-Bret's bit about his observations of the things that happen at EVERY wedding he's ever been to / 

-Adjusting the number of tags to a joke based off of a crowd's energy / 

-Reworking pre-pandemic bits to adapt to the pandemic

-The importance of delivering a joke from a place of emotional truth / 

-Having enough retired material in your back pocket to be able to use it when dealing with a heckler so the crowd thinks it's on the spot / 

-Starting your set with a universal premise / 

-The differences in approaching a paying audience vs. a bar audience / 

-Getting ahead of the audience on a punchline

-How honesty impacts joke delivery / 

-The hardest part of stand-up / 

-Using hypotheticals in a joke and the creative freedom they unlock / 

-Comedy timelines and when you should produce your first hour / 

-Getting through the self-criticism of listening to old material / 

-Being apolitical when talking politics onstage / 

-The misogynistic and cult-like construct of wedding ceremonies / 

-Expensive weddings / 

-Jordan Peele's outstanding writing advice / 

-And more!!!

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Produced by Golden Ox Studio | Music: Producedbyzip

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