Ep. 53 - Differences Between Men & Women Ft. Mike Paramore

We've heard it a million different ways from a million different comedians:

"Women do this." "Men do that."

We get it - we're different.

But what's funny about it that we haven't heard that much about? How about a society set up to point out differences instead of leaning into the fact that many perspectives mean more new ideas. That's why Mike Paramore joins us on this episode - not only did he find the funny in the differences between men and women, he approaches it from a fresh perspective, questioning a system that emphasizes differences, rather than embracing them.

In this episode, we talk about:

How 2020 was going to be a huge year for Mike until, well, 2020 /

How you determine when you start doing comedy /

The first real test of Mike’s career – doing a new 5 minutes at 4 consecutive shows /

Festival contest strategy /

Starting as a Christian comedian /

Advantages of working clean and the dirty joke Mike is trying to clean up /

Developing a chill confidence onstage /

Pointing out the elephant, or the crux of your content /

Mike’s bit about the differences between men and women /

The power of asking “why” /

The societal conditioning of girls acting like girls and boys acting like boys /

Being taught to flex our intelligence and conditioned out of listening and caring /

Women getting make-believe, but still applicable toys as kids /

Telling stories and venting to find punchlines through repeated performance /

Bill Burr’s cruise ship bit and how he gets away with population control jokes /

Taking ideas from paper to the stage to work /

How to approach an overdone premise /

If men or women laugh more and why /

And more!

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Produced by Golden Ox Studio | Music: Producedbyzip

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