Performance
The Second Beat: Why a Punchline Often Needs a Pause
Learn when a punchline pause helps the audience complete an expectation—and when a quicker turn keeps the joke clear…
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Performance
Timing, delivery and the choices performers make in the moment.
Our point of view
A laugh is a moment of recognition.
Comedy can surprise, unsettle or bring a room together. We look at the choices behind that moment without reducing a joke to a formula.