00:09One of the biggest parts of comedy is relying on things that the audience already understands
00:15and then...
00:16Have you guys seen that show Cat-Dog?
00:18It was on Nickelodeon.
00:19It was a cat and a dog and they're combined as like one creature.
00:22The cat on one side and the dog on the other side.
00:24You instantly understand without seeing anything why that's funny.
00:27In cats, the universally basic fundamental understanding of what a cat is would be it's
00:33a little more prissy, it's a little more uptight, they're a little more regal and elegant and
00:37you've paired it now with this dog that underlying fundamental understanding that anyone would
00:41have as a dog is like, yeah, they're wild and funny and silly and play fetch and roll
00:44in mud.
00:44So immediately without doing any work, you're relying on what people already know to leverage
00:49for comedy.
00:50So it's not like we have to come up with something no one's ever heard of before and a creature
00:55that no one's ever seen before and a place that no one's ever heard of before.
00:58That's actually harder because you have to explain to the audience what everything is,
01:02then make fun of it, then subvert it, versus relying on things that people already understand.
01:06That bank robber one Moroni showed earlier is great.
01:08We understand a person coming into a bank with a mask on and a gun.
01:12We're already thinking, oh, they're robbing it.
01:14And then he goes, I want a job.
01:15Give me a job.
01:16That's so funny because it's totally upending the normal direction that something would go,
01:21that a normal person would understand where this is going.
01:23You totally clipped that.
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