He used examples from Oprah, Steve Jobs and Politics. It is clever because, when the subject is famous, there is a strong min&heart stuff build up already, so many emotions and thoughts are already created. So when there is already a build up, it is easy to bend the curve to the negative, we have a strong basis to create contradiction.
You can find his shows all over YT, his joke about " the hardest job in the world, being a mom" .. He takes this as a basis, now he will contradict this, first technique
* Make fun of the "Being emotional about something". This technique always apply many cases in life. Pay attention, you will always see people are in the grip of some strong emotion. We dont have to be in the grip of the emotion to laugh at the joke, we also understand the connection. Sometimes the connection within us can be too strong to even laugh at the joke. Joke is not neccesarily universal because everyone has a different connection, one can laugh but also strongly get offended... ( That is why Bill Burr has gotten an angry letter from feminists)
Comedy itself, makes fun of two fundamentals = Emotion and Logic. These can be targeted personally, these can be taken personally on the contrary... Yet in core, this is pure comedy itself, only people are trying to target or getting offended. Material of comedy is emotion and logic. Now I am not saying getting ofendded is wrong, we have every right to defend our character&honor etc if someone using it to target... If it is not to hurt you can get the joke to levels of your own attachment to your ego...
Making fun of " One s being emotional about something" is easy especially, you will always have people around you, deeply embbeded in their emotions... The basis is already there, you dont have to create it...Comedian can create it, as copying life...but you dont have it.. All you have to do is to recognise it.
** How does he make fun of it?
This is very very very common... It is almost everywhere, all the time... Women are considered very emotional (but the subject does not have to be a woman, in this case it was coming from a womanly dominated enviroment which strengthens the contradiction).. This creates a very steady , strong basis for comedy, now we have a great potential to reverse this! Men generally percieved as less emotional because of that they tend to make fun of this naturally, because of the nature of the men&women dualities. This is a very simple technique , that works and being used everytime, I understand people trying to copyright one line jokes, but as you see, it is no brainer and the techniques behind them are very easy... All you have to do is to recognise emotions and act against them, make fun of them.. Try to see the dynamic, once you see it, it will be obvious to you and I am sorry you wont laugh so much at many jokes and you will learn to distance yourself from your own emotion&logic which is a spiritual practise in itself. If you hate yoga, forget the last part then !
He imitates, "how a woman might talk with his own voice" Imitating one s talking is again one simple major technique of making fun of someone. Again no brainer, he was expected to do that !
He continues, " I thought picking the rubbish from the bottom of sea was a harder job..." He repeats many extreme examples of hard worked jobs, this strengthen the contradiction, coming against what Oprah said, here funny, is the contradiction, showing how Oprah statement can be ridicilous logically, this thing agains logic makes the joke! Coming against emotion and logic did the job!
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