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Kaz Okamoto: Hello!

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Jerry Corley: Well, everybody's, did you get that email that, corrected the link?

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Kaz Okamoto: I didn't get the old link.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, well, you.

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Kaz Okamoto: Oh, I got the one at 9.44.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, okay, good. Yeah, I just got…

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Janet Rapala: Not the most recent one, I didn't get the older one.

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Jerry Corley: So interesting. So, it's all set up to be automated, and then, and then Zoom has implemented its AI

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Jerry Corley: So it actually sent out

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Jerry Corley: in the email originally that went out, evidently it didn't go out, you guys didn't get it, it sent out the wrong link. It sent out two links at the same time.

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Jerry Corley: So I was like, why are you sending out two… it doesn't make any sense, it keeps making all these dumb mistakes.

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Jerry Corley: So, I'm so glad that AI's around to really help everything get so fast and good.

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Jerry Corley: You know?

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Jerry Corley: Now, that would be something to do some double Entendre with, or to do some words. Now, one of the things we have, to work on…

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Jerry Corley: is a lot of times when we start to pick on a situation, what I love about wordplay is, and double Entendre, is you can just sit down and start looking at words, and look at the double meanings in the words, and then write a joke for that

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Jerry Corley: for that word. I mean, you can do this all day long. So, in those times where you feel stuck.

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Jerry Corley: Like, you don't feel like any material's coming to you, just start looking at words. But… Be specific.

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Jerry Corley: Look at words and phrases in industries, or life niches, or, like, for example, cooking, household chores.

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Jerry Corley: school.

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Jerry Corley: Show business… even drill down further, you know, rock and roll or music versus acting, Hollywood, celebrity,

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Jerry Corley: And, you know, you think about, relationships more specifically than relationships, marriage, first dates, One-night stands… Sex.

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Jerry Corley: So, if you find… now, within all these phrases that we find, you can either look up single words, like all the… like a, you know, sex vocabulary. Look up all those words.

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Jerry Corley: And then within those words, you'll find double entendres, or you can take phrases and look at the wordplay within those types of phrases.

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Jerry Corley: You know, there's certain just phrases that give you a lot of advantage to work around with. So, it's just like I was thinking about applying, how do you apply all these things? It gets overwhelming, because there's so many words, there's so many different places to use words.

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Jerry Corley: Sometimes just picking one word and finding out how many meanings can be used with this one word.

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Jerry Corley: then you could have a lot of stuff you can work with. For example, let me grab this guy right here.

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Jerry Corley: Grab this guy right here. Ha! See what I said there?

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Kaz Okamoto: That was my line, sorry.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah. Were you thinking of that? That's good.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, grab this guy right here. Well, you know, what if he… Jerry, what if he grabbed you back? Be careful where you grab him, it could be sexual harassment.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, it's true.

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Jerry Corley: I pulled a groin muscle this morning. You know, don't worry, I pull it every morning. Not the whole groin, just that little flappy part.

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Jerry Corley: That's, that's a Tom Cotter, joke.

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Jerry Corley: So, let me, up, let me find this up. Up, up, up, the, the crazy, crazy up.

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Jerry Corley: The Incredible Up. Alright.

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Jerry Corley: So… If you have,

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Jerry Corley: seen, I think in my book, I have this, this printed. It's like, a lot of words have, double entendres, right? So, this one's called The Incredible Up.

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Jerry Corley: You can take any, like.

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Jerry Corley: any word and play with it. Let me share this with you, so you can read through with me. It… I… you know, this one exercise inspired me a long time ago, and I said, oh, this'll be a good one to share, because it's one of those ones that…

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Jerry Corley: That, just like, you start… it'll help you start to see the world differently, see language differently. And so this particular one, this two-letter word, it's called the incredible up. This two-letter word in the English language has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is UP.

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Jerry Corley: So what does that say to you? More meanings than any other two-letter word.

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Jerry Corley: So, you can, like, look up…

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Jerry Corley: I know they have it in… you can probably chat GPT this, right? And that's because you would look it up on the internet anyway in one of those, in, you know, in one of the Wordplay, sites like, WordHippo, things like that that, you know, people use for Scrabble.

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Jerry Corley: Look up the most common, you know, more meanings, words with the most meanings.

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Jerry Corley: And you'll have a lot of words to choose from, a lot of words out there that have double meanings. So… so the most meanings is the word up. It's the most meanings for a two-letter word.

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Jerry Corley: And it's listed in the dictionary as an adverb, preposition, adjective, noun, or verb.

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Jerry Corley: Now…

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Jerry Corley: taking this and putting it into, like, a sentence, or multiple sentences, and what I like to do is use

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Jerry Corley: Opposites… and Paradoxes…

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Jerry Corley: irony when you're creating it. For example, if we read this, it's easy to understand up, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake up?

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Jerry Corley: At a meeting, why does a topic come up, and why do we speak up, and why are the officers up for election? If there is a tie, it's a toss-up, and why is it up to the secretary to write up a report? We call up our friends, brighten up a room, polish up the silver, warm up the leftovers, and clean up the kitchen. We lock up the house and fix up the old car.

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Jerry Corley: At other times, this little world, this little word has real special meaning, like people stir up trouble, line up for tickets, work up an appetite, and think up excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed up is special. And this up is confusing. A drain must be opened up because it is blocked up. We open up a store in the morning, but we close it up at night. We seem to be pretty mixed up about up.

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Jerry Corley: I like, you know, to be knowledgeable about the proper uses of up, look up, up in the dictionary. Look up, look up the word UP in the dictionary. In the desk size dictionary, it takes up…

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Jerry Corley: almost a quarter of the page, and it can add up to about 30 definitions. If you're up to it, you might try building up a list of as many ways up is used. It'll take up a lot of your time, but if you don't give up, you might wind up with about 100 or more.

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Jerry Corley: When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding up. When the sun comes out, we say it's clearing up. When it rains, it soaks up the earth. When it does not rain for a while, things dry up.

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Jerry Corley: One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it up for now. My time is up. Oh, and one more thing. What's the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

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Jerry Corley: UP.

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Jerry Corley: Did that one crack you up?

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Jerry Corley: Don't screw up, my time is up.

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Jerry Corley: So you can see, just with that moment, that's a very Seinfeldian or George Carlin way of approaching

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Jerry Corley: a word, right? They put it in a sentence, you get to hear it acted out in a sentence. In ways we're used to just normalizing the way phrases are used. In this case, we're pointing out

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Jerry Corley: the differences in up and using it together. So, it's just one word in playing with. Now, taking that one word, what's another word that would be fun to mess around with? Cliff, you have your hand up.

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Cliff Spenger: Yeah, I was gonna ask, who wrote that?

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Jerry Corley: This is anonymous.

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Cliff Spenger: Oh, anonymous, bro.

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Jerry Corley: I, I spin…

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Cliff Spenger: Pretty good.

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Jerry Corley: trying to find this… the author of this. It was shared with me by somebody in class a long time ago, because I was writing something on…

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Jerry Corley: on up and down, and using opposites, and this person, and I think it was one of my weekend workshops, shared… emailed this to me. I go, this is brilliant, right? What a fun piece. It reminds you… reminds me of George Carlin or Jerry Seinfeld.

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Jerry Corley: who does a bit about the left bit, if you've heard him do the left bit.

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Jerry Corley: So it's like the, you know, if I could… I might be able to find the left bit somewhere. I know I have it in a… in a recent class I used, used it… let me see… left, Jerry Seinfeld's left bit. I'll see if I can find it. It's a fond one, and it just talks about the… how left is always used negatively.

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Jerry Corley: You know, you have two left feet, or that comment came out of left field.

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Jerry Corley: And it goes on and on, and he says something like that, and and then we go to a party, and nobody's there. You're like, what happened? They left.

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Jerry Corley: So… so it's like, you know, he shows different ways to use just the left, the word left, so that's a fun one, too, and people don't usually think about it that way. Cliff?

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Cliff Spenger: Yeah, I was gonna ask, I didn't get to the workshop this week. Did anyone else get it in the email?

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Jerry Corley: The link for this?

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Cliff Spenger: The workshop from last… the link from last week.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's another one that came up. I got, I got an email from Pappy saying it didn't go out. It was scheduled to go out, but didn't go out. I will… I'm gonna put that right now in the, in the chat.

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Cliff Spenger: Okay.

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Jerry Corley: And Steve also asked me a question, it's like, how do I download the videos? Previously with… because they're all… they're all hosted on… these… the new ones are hosted on Vimeo.

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Jerry Corley: And previously, you'd be able to… you used to be able to right-click the video and just say Save As. Now it's not allowing that to happen, so I want to make sure everybody who's signed up for the class can download the video and store it, so they own it, it's on their hard drive if they want it, or they can keep it in a streaming thing. If they ever want it in the future, they can get it from me. But I'll be putting a button on here.

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Jerry Corley: To allow you just to click it and download the video.

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Jerry Corley: So you have it, because Vimeo's changed the way you download now. So anyway, that will take care of that so you have it. So I'm gonna… let me copy and put this one in the chat, you'll have it, and I'll also send out an email.

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Cliff Spenger: Great things.

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Kaz Okamoto: Hey, Jerich, when you're doing the, whatever you're gonna send us, hard copy stuff, I mean, it's not hard copy, but it's an, can you include the little thing about Up?

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Kaz Okamoto: Because that originally, I don't think, was in your paperwork, right?

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Jerry Corley: That is correct. That's not originally in my paperwork, and I will definitely, make sure it is, contained in the, in the worksheet so that you…

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Kaz Okamoto: Thank you!

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Jerry Corley: Welcome!

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Jerry Corley: Let me drop this into the chat. This is 18.5, the Sandler. That was a good, class, and one thing I love about it is, like, when somebody asks me to do a cover comedian.

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Jerry Corley: And, like, he's not a big fan of mine. Like, I wasn't a big… or I'm not a big fan of Sandler, right? I was like, Sandler, alright, he's alright. But, watching…

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Jerry Corley: his stuff, especially that special, I Love You, how he just incorporated this chaos in the whole thing, and it was… it was more than just a stand-up act, it was about a story of trying to put on a stand-up show.

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Jerry Corley: And all the obstacles he was facing along the way, and I just thought the presentation was so entertaining, and I said, like, that really elevates who he is. Now, he knows

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Jerry Corley: That he's not a great stand-up. He's not very talented. He's not, I'm not very talented, but I'm worth millions. Isn't that weird? Right? So, he does… he knows it, but he… and he owns it.

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Jerry Corley: But it doesn't stop him from doing that. And the thing that is interesting is 2024, I think it was 2024, he was in the top 10 box office earners of all stand-up comedians for that year.

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Jerry Corley: I think it was number 9, or number 8, or number 7, somewhere in the… in that range, but he made a lot of money, a lot… millions, I think it was $28, $29 million, at the… just at the box office.

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Jerry Corley: So, for people coming to see him live. So, he still has that kind of draw power, at this point in his career.

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Jerry Corley: So I think it speaks to, it speaks to, just his sustainability and his longevity. And, you know, I'm not a big fan. I think there's certain movies I really like, but certain movies, you know, I thought were flops, but it still, like, brings it. So…

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Jerry Corley: Anyway, so that'll be on the, on the list. You'll have, you'll have that PDF as well, to take a look at that and study it. Another thing we can go grab, quick, take a quick look at is Modern Man by George Carlin, and one of the things you'll learn with

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Jerry Corley: The… I think with,

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Jerry Corley: See if I got, if I can find, Team Library. Look at George Carlin, Modern Man.

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Jerry Corley: with Carlin, he does this whole bit on words, and I remember watching a, an interview with Carlin, and he was telling… this person, I think it was from People Magazine, or the LA… from the New York Times, he was telling the interviewer that he's working on… he was getting ready to do his, I think, 10th…

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Jerry Corley: HBO special.

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Jerry Corley: And he said, I'm working on this piece right now, this Wordplay piece, it's gonna be a lot of fun. And you could tell he was excited about working on this wordplay piece, and… but it was like, I can't, you know, it's not ready yet, but he is working on it. So, what he was doing is working on memorizing this piece.

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Jerry Corley: And you'll notice, when we watch this video, where he gets his laughs.

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Jerry Corley: Is where he has a paradox, or opposites.

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Jerry Corley: You'll… and we'll go through, and when you ask me where was the paradox, just, if you feel… if you have those questions, feel free to ask. We'll point those out so that you get to see them, and that's where the laughs occur, where you have things that, you know, we got, he got hate mail from a love child.

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Jerry Corley: So in those moments, that heightens the coincidence for that joke to work, right? That wordplay to work. And so you'll see how he does this modern man piece. And let me, unshare and then reshare, because I have to make sure I have the audio set correctly.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so let's look at modern man.

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Jerry Corley: I'm a modern man.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Thank you very much.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Thank you.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium, digital and smoke-free. A diversified, multicultural, postmodern deconstructionist, politically, anatomically, and ecologically incorrect. I've been uplinked and downloaded, I've been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech lowlife, a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, bi-coastal multitasker, and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm New Wave, but I'm old school, and my inner child is outward bound. I'm a hot-wired, heat-seeking, warm-hearted, cool customer, voice-activated, and biodegradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive, and from time to time, I'm radioactive.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, riding the wave, dodging the bullet, pushing the envelope. I'm on point, on task, on message, and off drugs. I got no need for coke and speed. I got no urge to binge and purge. I'm in the moment, on the edge, over the top, but under the radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps, I run victory laps.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm a totally ongoing Bigfoot slam-dunk rainmaker with a proactive outreach, a raging workaholic, a working rageaholic, out of rehab, and in denial.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant, and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up, you can't dumb me down, because I'm tireless, and I'm wireless. I'm an alpha male on beta blockers.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm a non-believer and an overachiever, laid back, but fashion-forward. Up front, down home, low-rent, high maintenance, supersized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready, and built to last. I'm a hands-on, footloose, knee-jerk head case, prematurely post-traumatic, and I have a love child who sends me hate mail.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: But I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing. A supportive, bonding, nurturing primary caregiver. My output is down, but my income is up. I take a short position on the long bond, and my revenue stream has its own cash flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports. I'm gender-specific, capital-intensive, user-friendly, and lactose intolerant.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I like rough sex. I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the F-word in my email, and the software on my hard drive is hardcore. No soft porn.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I bought a microwave at a mini mall, I bought a minivan at a megastore. I eat fast food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite-sized, ready to wear, and I come in all sizes.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: A fully equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically proven, scientifically formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-washed, pre-cooked, preheated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed, and I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean, cocked, locked, and ready to rock. Rough, tough, and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide, I get glide in my stride. Driving and moving, sailing and spinning, jivin' and grooving, wailing and winning. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road, I party hardy, and lunchtime is crunch time. I'm hanging in, there ain't no doubt.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: And I'm hanging tough, over and out.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so that piece by itself is, pretty, spectacular. What do you think? What were your thoughts on that?

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Kaz Okamoto: Holy shit!

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Jerry Corley: Right? Right? Yeah. And memorizing that alone had to just take hours and hours and hours. Right? And he… but he doesn't… he doesn't… you know, he didn't care. He was like, I'm gonna get this as a fun piece, and you hear the poetry in it. So where does a lot of the coincidence come from? The paradoxes, right?

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Jerry Corley: So these are… that's an added coincidence. Now, I want you to think about coincidence. Coincidence is what makes people laugh. If you have a phrase and you have rhyme, that's an extra coincidence. If you have a phrase and you have alliteration, that's a coincidence. If you have a phrase and you have paradox, that's an added layer of coincidence. If you have a… if you have a phrase that has paradox.

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Jerry Corley: Paradox, rhyme, and alliteration, and all the words are single-syllabled.

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Jerry Corley: You have more.

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Jerry Corley: like coincidence, and that's another layer that makes the audience applaud. So it's those types of things that really can impact it. So you'll notice that Carlin used rhyme in there, he used alliteration in there, he used paradox in there. So, it's not just wordplay, it's wordplay with added layers of coincidence. That's really what heightens

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Now, I'm left-handed. To me, that was always, like, a special thing. Is anybody left-handed?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: They're here, they have trouble clapping, that's alright. Because when you're left-handed, you put down for being left-handed, you know, it's always left… oh, left words are always negative things. Leftovers, they're terrible.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Two left feet, left-handed compliment. You ever see a crook named Righty? You never see that. Everything right is a positive thing, right on, the Bill of Rights. You go to a party, there's nobody there. Would everybody go? They left. Now, I'm left-handed. To me, that was over…

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Jerry Corley: But it still makes sense. I think there was more there he could have played with, but he economized and shortened it up a little bit, because a lot more things you could do with the left bit, with the left. So, in that case, you can see it's just very specific to one idea, and he just sort of fleshes it out from there. So we're gonna have some… we're gonna look at a couple of,

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Jerry Corley: other, comedians and how they use wordplay, and then we'll, like, we're gonna have… we have tons of exercises. Plus, the PDFs are packed with information and tools, and I had a field day with this. It was so much fun to go through it and look at, you know, collecting just a hundred of the most…

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Jerry Corley: And so, you'll have a whole database to mess with. You can work on that for, like, a year, and come up with so many jokes, just in… and just that are wordplay. Karen?

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Kaz Okamoto: On purpose. And then… but she never did it with me. And then with my daughter, which I never told her this, I gave everything to her left hand on purpose to make her left-handed, because it makes you think on the other side of your brain, which is the creative, artistic part of your brain.

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Jerry Corley: Left side of your brain is your… is your emotional side. The right side of your brain is your creative… wait, wait, right side of the brain, creative, left side, analytical.

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Kaz Okamoto: makes me cut crooked, because I'm so used to using that. Bat, golf, you know, right-handed, bat a ball right-handed. I don't throw a ball, I throw a ball left-handed, but everything was for right-handed people.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, no, without a doubt, right? So, in soccer, I had this, neighbor who was a really good soccer player, and, when I was, like, 5, 6 years old, his dad coached us in all the, you know, little teams, but he was such a good player, and…

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Jerry Corley: He went to Europe to, to play on some club teams, and came back with just so many different level, different level of skill altogether. And so he worked with me on kicking with my left foot.

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Jerry Corley: And then I was like, wait a second, if I could do that, I can play tennis with my right and left hand. And then I was, like, playing football when I would play football with the, you know, the friends and all that out there playing football. I learned to play football, and quarterback throwing it with my right hand or my left hand.

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Jerry Corley: But I wasn't as great. I wasn't good, right? But it's amazing when you get good at doing both, like, especially, like, ping pong or tennis. You can switch hands, and next thing you know, you're hitting a forehand on both sides.

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Jerry Corley: So it's like, you know, you've got the advantage. So I think, you're right, it's like that left-handed thing, it's like, how could you switch that around? And actually, the reason I learned to use my left hand as well as my right hand is, like, this way, when I'm with a woman, I can sleep on either side of the bed.

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Stephen Berger: Jerry, supposedly, at the Salem, witch trials, if you were left-handed, you were, you were, considered, like, suspect for being a witch.

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Jerry Corley: thank gosh, thank God we don't live in those days. And then, like, but you think about that, it goes really well for… just for being left-handed, and I think it did… it was looked down on, and my parents noticed that I tended to lean towards my left hand, so they gave me lefty scissors.

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Jerry Corley: the other, you know, what the… if you're strong with the right leg, it'll teach you how to be strong with the left leg, you know, or left foot in soccer. Same thing, right-handed, left-handed. Like, I cut most things with my left hand.

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Jerry Corley: when I'm, you know, slicing, meat, or something like that, and it's like… and then I… now I can switch and do it either hand, so it's like, that's kind of a thing. So, it's… it's just kind of fun to see what people favor, and how they… what they lean towards, and where would it be embarrassing

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Kaz Okamoto: Okay, so my mother said there was an old carver, in Japan, and his name was Hidari Jinja. Hidadi is the word for left. So he was a right-handed carver, and he was incredible. He had an apprentice that was so jealous of him, he cut off

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Jerry Corley: You know, and I, you know, I will masturbate with my left hand to pretend it's a stranger.

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Jerry Corley: he's probably looking down on us right now. If you said, just, my father's probably looking down on us right now, it doesn't give you the same little feeling that you lean into he's dead, right? And then you're like, he's not dead, he's just condescending, so I think that's fun wordplay.

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Jerry Corley: Wordplay, double Entendre, one of the fastest ways to get fast and witty on your feet. You can listen to what people say, take… we've done this so far this morning in this class, taking things people say and finding a double meaning of the word,

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Jerry Corley: You know, that's just taking a simple situation, and you put us in a room, or in a context that makes that word, stimulation, mean something different. Doctor.

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Jerry Corley: He just won't know the pronunciation of the word, like the word lemnisket. You familiar with that word? Lemnisket?

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Jerry Corley: That's good. Limp Bizkit. He thought, you know, he thought it was Limp Bizkit. So Lemnisket is… it's a mathematical symbol that means infinity. It's the sideways figure eight, right? It's the… it's called the Limniskit. It's called… that's how… that's the word for it, right? So… but most people don't know it. He was like, oh, Lemniscate.

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Jerry Corley: Wait, is that how it's pronounced, bro? And then one time you said to me, D, you've been having trouble sleeping, you need to try that Shamimal tea.

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Jerry Corley: Right? But he doesn't really know a lot of words, so it's like we're clear about who we're making fun of here in this, in that joke, right? We're making fun of friends. If you give it to a guy who doesn't know it, and it's like… it's like, I… you know, when I do the joke, it's like, I dropped out of college, I really wasn't learning much. I took two years of anatomy, and I still don't know shit about the stars.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So, Limniskit, Limp Bizkit… yeah, I saw… dude, I saw them in concert. They were… they were a riot, you know, and if you've seen Limp Biscuit, you'd be… you wouldn't be surprised if there was a riot. Right? So, in this case.

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Jerry Corley: So I said, you need to write a joke to talk about that stammer immediately. Get that out of the way. And so, he says, what should I do? And I wrote him a joke, and the joke was, I know what, I, you know, I stammer when I talk, and it's not because I'm nervous, I have PTSD,

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Jerry Corley: And so that joke, had so much mileage, because the lady who was the, was the talent coordinator at the time, I knew her from the World Series of Comedy, and she saw me that year, and she says, wait a second, Brett Banta, is he your guy? I said, yeah. She goes, oh my god, that Iraq my mother threw at me, are you kidding me? That had me cracking up.

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Jerry Corley: Right, so that's a pun, but it's still, in the sentence where it works, it's still funny. Often a pun is used when you're focusing on the word itself as the joke, as opposed to the definition, the misinterpretation of the definition.

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Jerry Corley: You know? Like, my daughter, when she was, I think, 10 years old, she said, Daddy, I have a joke I wrote.

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Jerry Corley: And for a 10-year-old, I was like, hey, that's really good. You didn't say fan, I'm your biggest fan, because 10-year-olds would usually go that way. She went to a different word for fan.

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Jerry Corley: But it's still, for a 10-year-old, perfect little joke, right? So, so I thought, you know, you can… words give you so much to work with. Homophones, those are words that…

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Jerry Corley: are gay. Kidding. See what I did there, Steven Berger? Homophones are words that sound like other words, right? So they sound the same. So, examples of homophones.

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lina alva: Is that one?

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Jerry Corley: cell, like in cell, as in the body, has about a trillion… 1.7 trillion cells, right? Or sell your car. So, they sound alike, right, but they're different words. So, there are words that are spelled the same.

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Jerry Corley: That have multiple meanings, but they're like a homophone, or different words that sound the same.

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Jerry Corley: But they mean different things. So, bear and bear. Like, bear naked ladies, and I saw a bear in the woods.

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lina alva: I'm in a can, jail, and then, like…

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, I'm in the can, right? That could, like, that's the same word.

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Jerry Corley: That, basically, like, 1-O-N-E, and 1WON, Right? I won the game, We're number one.

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Jerry Corley: You see, now you have two different versions of the word that sounds alike, but they're different words. O-N-E is one, and W-O-N is one, but they mean different things, and they're spelled differently.

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Jerry Corley: Right, so that's a homophone. They sound alike, but you can still have fun with them. Like, we won the game today because we're number one, right? And it's like, you know, and it's like,

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Jerry Corley: Which is spelled W-O-N. That was my band director when I was a freshman in high school, Mr. Juan. And so, so you have Juan 1-1-1.

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Jerry Corley: That could be a fun thing to play with, right? So, one… one… we're, you know, we're number one, because we won the game. Our coach, Mr. Juan, helped us to win.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So now you have a lot of wordplay there to miss with. Say, for example, you have read, R-E-A-D, and read, R-E-E-D,

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Jerry Corley: So, if you've… If you read… about the Sea of Reeds.

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Jerry Corley: the antique Gospels that they found, where they realized that there was a whole bunch of misinterpretations in the Bible, so it wasn't really the Red Sea, it was the Sea of Reeds.

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Jerry Corley: So, the, they parted the Sea of Reeds, not the Red Sea. So, misinterpretation there. But you can have a lot of fun with that. Sun and sun, S-U-N, S-O-N, homophones, right? You know, so I took my son, we went to the beach so we can get some sun.

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Jerry Corley: I said, you want to put on some sunblock, son? You don't want to get too much sun. Sun.

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Kaz Okamoto: They're hot!

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Kaz Okamoto: They're going to their house over there.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, their house over there, they, they're going to their house over there. That's good. So it's like, so T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E versus T-H-E-I-R, and then, T-H-E-R-E, which is there. So, they're going to their house over there, they're going to their house over there. That's a fun thing to put in there. It's like, you can have fun with that.

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Jerry Corley: You have, like, there's, like, charts. If you look up homophones, you'll find charts on the internet for homophones, and you can play around with those all day long. Malapropisms, an intentional, mess up of the name Norm Crosby. Hey, be Etende, you know, or mashing up words, to, to confuse words, within a vocabulary context.

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Jerry Corley: So, malapropisms are intentional misuse of words. The literal interpretation of a word, that's simple truth.

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Jerry Corley: Like, if you really get in there and look at something, and you look at what the intended meaning is versus what the simple truth meaning is, we've done this with, you can do this with song lyrics, you do this with scripture, you know, it's about time. They've legalized marijuana in most of the states in the country. They always say this is a… this country is founded on Christian principles. Well, even in the Bible, they were getting stoned to death.

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Jerry Corley: So, literal interpretations, right? Those are, you can have fun, you just take phrases and analyze them, and you could find, alternate meanings in those phrases. You can do this with almost any phrase at all, like, like.

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Jerry Corley: you know, reframing technique, or the inflection exercise. That means you emphasize a different word in the sentence. How are you doing today? Meaning, like, sort of, what's your strategy? How could you… so somebody said, how are you doing today? What's the common response?

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, alright, yeah. Or, how you doing today? They'll sometimes just repeat, how you doing today? Right? They'll say it back to you, right? So it's like, how you doing today? How am I doing today? How am I doing today? With, 3 cups of coffee and 2 Adderall. How else? How are you doing today?

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Jerry Corley: You know? Or, how you doing today? Last night, I did it with bourbon, so today, I'm doing it with, seltzer water and brown rice.

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Jerry Corley: You know, detox, right? So, so, how you doing today? You know, how you doing today? How you doing today? Well, I think I'm doing okay. My wife thinks I'm doing the neighbor's wife.

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Jerry Corley: Or maybe you take a, like a, a literal interpretation or a malapropism. You can say, like, or misunderstanding, or intentional misunderstanding of the word. So, how are you doing today?

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Jerry Corley: Oh, I thought for a second you said, who are you doing today? Like, and ask not what, you know, what you could do for your country, ask who… ask not what your country could do for you, ask who you could do in your country.

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Jerry Corley: So you can have that as a response to a simple phrase like that, just looking at the simple truth and analyzing it a little further.

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Jerry Corley: And seeing what's really being said, or what the hidden meaning is being said in there. And you get, like, you know, just taking this chart and going through, you can read a bunch of different Wordplay-style jokes.

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Jerry Corley: an acronym assignment, you know? What I love about acronyms is they're ambiguous, right? So, you can say, you know, I tested positive for HIV, and people go, oh my god, you know, and then you give it,

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Jerry Corley: you know, human immunodeficiency virus, or something like that, they call it, right? So, you give it a different… give the HIV, they stand for different words. So, you can say something like that in an acronym. We can have fun with that one. Lots of different stuff.

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Jerry Corley: Monda Greens, it's, like, deliberately mishearing a phrase. Egg corns.

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Jerry Corley: Tom Swifties. Spoonerisms, initial sounds between… exchanging sounds between words, we'll go over some of those. Paraprost Dokians, we talked about a paraprost Dokian as, like, the second part of the second sentence reinterprets the first part of the sentence. Like, for example, I told my daughter that I saw a moose on the way to work this morning, and my daughter said, how did you know it was on its way to work?

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Jerry Corley: So, it's like you're… it's a different interpretation of the meaning. Zugmas, so that's a grammar thing, portmantus, we… it's word construction, and we… where's our… where's our… our French person, Sara, on this one?

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Jerry Corley: American, America, we've taken it and given a different interpretation, where we combine two words into one.

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Jerry Corley: you see this happening, you see this, like, it's a mash-up between two… two words. I'll give you some examples as we go down the line a little bit. It's like, you'll see this a lot with the way people talk,

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Jerry Corley: The word hangry. It's like hungry and angry. I'm so hungry, I'm angry, so I'm hangry. So we do… we're doing that sort of thing a lot lately, in… with English. Contronyms, opposing meanings, exploit words that can suggest its own opposites. There's all kinds of different stuff. So, inflection shifts, and we'll get into that a little later. But these are something you can work on. There's a table there for you to work on those.

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Jerry Corley: So, Wordplay… will create an impression of speed, because it happens quickly. You don't have to rush.

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Jerry Corley: It's just they're… they're very efficient, so you can have fun with it, and people think you're really witty, if you pay attention to words and their double meanings. So, so it's like, we're gonna get into watching some comedians right now. Like, one of my favorites for Wordplay, Stuart Francis, we'll take a look at him.

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Jerry Corley: And we'll see what he does with pawns and wordplay. Just look at it, we'll look at Stuart Francis right now, live at the Apollo.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Of course I have parents. People say I sound very immature whenever I talk about my mommy and daddy.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I recently did a very tasteless joke at an alopecia convention. Fortunately, it didn't raise any eyebrows.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Today a courier dropped off only part of my grizzly costume. I was so angry, I choked him with my bare hands.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: My trial for butchering a live chicken resumes Monday. I'll try to keep you abreast.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Recently in court, I was found guilty of being egotistical.

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Jerry Corley: Hey guys, look closely, I think, I think Cliff's, edibles have kicked in.

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Jerry Corley: Cliff said… I was like, we were like, Cliff said, edibles have kicked in. He's… he's fading again. There it is.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, let's go back.

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Jerry Corley: In court, I was found, guilty of being egotistical. I am appealing.

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Jerry Corley: So, what… the way I… how do you think… this is what I do, I take a joke like that, and I go, how do I think he came up with that joke? So what I would probably do is, you know, if I was working on, say, words in law.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Taking law words and putting them down. Appealing, automatically would stand out as possible with a double Entendre possibility. Appealing being, meaning, you know, taking it to the next layer of the court system.

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Jerry Corley: you're very appealing. She's very appealing. Meaning attractive. So, he basically sets it up with, in court, I was found guilty of being, egotistical. I am appealing.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So, what a nice way to play around with that word is you build the context around it by starting with the word itself and its multiple meanings, then you say, how can I take the sounds-like of that and apply it towards something?

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Jerry Corley: To see how you build that out, taking a certain word. And in this case, you… this way, I'd like to break it down to, like, industry, or sector, or niche, niche, or niche, niche, niche, however we decide to pronounce that. Kaz, you have your hand up.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, so when you're looking at something like that, the joke you just said about egotistical, I'm appealing, can you then, like, go on the internet and Google

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Kaz Okamoto: like, sentences or things that would make me sound egotistical, or… you know what I mean? Like, how… or you just think about it yourself, but what if you're stuck?

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Jerry Corley: Sure, I mean, definitely, if that can help you open up the premise, yes, right? Sentences that make me sound egotistical, but I think what he did there was start with the double meaning of the word, and then put it into some sort of framework

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Jerry Corley: that to make that joke play the way he wanted it to play.

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Kaz Okamoto: how… how you've taught us about listings. So, if I did that, and then listed all the things,

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Kaz Okamoto: In, like, words that are used in court, and then be able to connect it that way, too?

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah. You know, so he may have… it may have been a situation where he was either reading an article about something, or hearing the news, and they said, they say they will be appealing.

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Jerry Corley: You know, it's like, it's like, they will be appealing, or what, are they gonna go, get a facial and get their hair done?

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Jerry Corley: See what I'm saying? It's like, that'll make them more appealing.

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Jerry Corley: You know what would make them more appealing if they got their, got, you know, got a facial and got their hair done? You know? So, he's playing around with appealing, meaning, legally, they're gonna take it to the next layer of courts, of the court system, and he takes and applies it towards being appealing, or good-looking, or attractive. So…

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Jerry Corley: That's one way to do it, yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: Sometimes, because there was a joke he said, like, I didn't get it.

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Kaz Okamoto: You know.

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Jerry Corley: Which one was that?

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Kaz Okamoto: Oh, God, if I would have remembered. It was, like, a couple before this one, and I just went, I don't…

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: The Seven of Diamonds!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Sorry, my mind's playing tricks with me.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Okay.

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Kaz Okamoto: So that one, so say it again, I don't understand.

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Jerry Corley: He just… he was a non-sequitur joke, so he says, the Seven of Diamonds!

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Jerry Corley: I'm sorry, my mind is playing tricks with me.

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Kaz Okamoto: I get it, okay.

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Jerry Corley: So it's a, you know, you often hear that phrase…

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Kaz Okamoto: He's a magic trick.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's… was that the one?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, because I went, wait, what? Because then… because he continues on to the next one, and my brain is still processing, what the fuck did that mean? You know, because it didn't hit right away.

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Jerry Corley: Right, and some people, probably in that audience, feel the same way, right? So, they're like, what? I'm sort of… and he moves right on to the next one, so you have to keep up.

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Kaz Okamoto: I thought the alopecia one was hysterical.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, the alopecia one was really good.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I recently did a very tasteless joke at an alopecia convention. Fortunately, it didn't raise any eyebrows.

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Jerry Corley: So, in this case, I'm sure he took the phrase, raise eyebrows, which means, you know, create concern, or shock, or alarm, right? What? So, instead, he goes, raise eyebrows, how can I reinterpret that phrase? Well, you know.

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Jerry Corley: It'd be really, you know, alopecia convention. He might have listed things dealing with hair, right? Raise eyebrows. What if you had no eyebrows? Could you actually raise them? You know, so it builds it out in the alopecia convention, so I think that's a fun way of doing that. So, you can see, just in, like.

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Jerry Corley: All of these jokes he has in, like, a minute and 22 seconds.

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Jerry Corley: And that's not even including the introduction, but I think this particular video, he gets right on stage, and it's… oh, he does have an intro, so, it's about 5 seconds. So, so in this case, about a hundred and, about 2 minutes, and he's got,

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Jerry Corley: a lot of the… just some, you know, it's about a minute 22, not 2 minutes. He's got all those jokes already. Now, what I would do…

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Jerry Corley: with, like, Stuart Francis, I would take a 3-minute segment, and I would transcribe it.

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Jerry Corley: And take each one of those jokes and put them on the page and analyze them. The more you analyze them and see what he could be doing, the more you start to… your brain starts to open up with how to approach these.

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Jerry Corley: Right? How to take these phrases and apply them. Right? So, that's what I would do in that sort of situation with Stuart Francis. A fun one to listen to.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And he has a lot to see, he rapid-fire.

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Jerry Corley: guy with a lot of, like, a lot of possibilities. Now, let's take a look at,

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Jerry Corley: Here's Ismo. Now, some of you have seen me play Izmo before. Now, Izmo is a Finnish comedian.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: My next guest is the…

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Hello.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Hello, good evening. I am Ismo, and yes, I am from Finland. Yay!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I moved to America about a year ago, and it's been great, but I have to say that it took a long time to learn the things, like the small, subtle things. Like, it took me a year to figure out that the correct answer to what's up

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Is what's up?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: It took a long time, but now I know. If somebody says, what's up?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I just tape.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Watch up.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I… Is that it's It feels wrong, like, I feel I'm not answering a question.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: But they are happy.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So I just keep doing it. And it took me even longer than that to finally learn that, can I help you, actually means go away.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm always learning, but I think the language still has been the most difficult part, because I studied English for years, and I thought, I know English, but then I moved to America, turns out.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: No. Like, I didn't really know it, like, all the things, like, I think the hardest word to truly master has been the word

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Ass. Ass. I thought it's really easy, it means a butt. But no.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, like, yeah, sometimes it can be in the butt, but that's just the tip of the assburg.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, there are so many meanings to the word ass, I think it's the most complicated word in English. I've been trying to write a whole dictionary about just ass. There's so many, like, for example, lazy ass. That means, lazy.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, my lazy-ass husband, it's the same sentence, without the ass.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So, yeah, the as is just optional there, it's… And long as means long. Like a long-ass flight. So, long flight. But if you want to make it longer, you can add as.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: And my definite favorite one, a grown-ass man.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: It turns out it means a grown man. The entire man has grown. Not only his ass. So I learned that you can just add ass to anything, and then it sounds a little bit cooler. Like anything. I just bought this blue-ass shirt.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Oh, thank you, that was some good-ass meatballs. Anything, but you have to be careful, because sometimes if you add ass to something, it can actually reverse the meaning of the original word. Like, for example, badass. That's good.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, bad is bad, but badass is good. But not always. Like, dumbass is still dumb.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So, how can you know? You have to know specifically which ones are flipped. And then there's the concept of your ass. And your ass, that means, like, yourself.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, like, move your ass! That's like move everything.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Like, move your ass and the rest of your body, and, like, everything. If you have a car, that's included in the ass. All of them, same direction, just move. So your ass means yourself plus all you have, but my ass, my ass, that means, like.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: No. Like, if I say that, wow, this car is really fast, and you say, oh, fast, my ass.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So, it means, like, no. It's not fast. And to make it even more complicated, ass can be divided. Like, if you are an ass, that means that you're being stupid. But if you're half-ass…

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: They need that.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: And it means that, it means that you are not concentrating properly.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: And if you go even smaller, if you are a piece of ass, then you are beautiful.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Dogs a lot. Thank you.

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Jerry Corley: So that's a fun little piece right there, and you see how he can take that and apply it towards a lot of different things. So, it's just one word, and he applies it in multiple ways. So, thoughts on that piece of performance?

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Kaz Okamoto: Hi, you!

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Kaz Okamoto: It's interesting because…

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Kaz Okamoto: Comparing him to, Stuart Francis. Stuart Francis is succinct in what he's saying, you know, and it makes us think about that, but he's explaining it, which is interesting, because of his interpretation as someone who doesn't have English as a first language.

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Jerry Corley: Yes, so that's the angle, right? That's what I like about the angle, is like, if you, like, don't have English as the first language, you can have a fun time interpreting that, you know, learning it, because I… there's one of my students, she's from India, she's got a master's in English.

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Jerry Corley: But she doesn't know any of the idioms. Like, when I said the cat's out of the bag, she goes, what is this? You know, what do you mean? Jerry, what do you mean cat's out of the bag?

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Kaz Okamoto: We do have a caddy.

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Jerry Corley: Why are they putting cats in the back?

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Jerry Corley: Why do you have cats… don't they have a litter box? You have to put them in the bag? You know, and it's like, she didn't know the meaning of that phrase. And so I said that, you know, and she felt like…

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Jerry Corley: insecure because of that. I said, don't make it… let it make you feel insecure. There's a lot of colloquial phrases that we use that people don't know about. Use it for building… exploit it to build jokes. You don't know a lot of the language.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So, I mean, think about the literal interpretations. You just come over here, from, you know, out of the country, you know English is a second language, you're walking in the airport, you hear some guy look at the, looking at a woman, he says, man, I'd love to be able to hit that.

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Jerry Corley: And, you know, and they're like, wow, they really are violent here in America, you know? So, you could have… you could see how quickly you could take those interpretations. I mean, as a writer, you could put yourself in that person's head, right? Say, okay, I'm gonna pretend that English is my second language. Now I'm gonna look at all these words, and see… or these phrases, and see how to interpret them.

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Jerry Corley: You could even do it by culture. For example, as a white guy, as an average white guy, I don't know all the hip talk

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Jerry Corley: You know, remember in the airplane, they did that whole thing about the jive, right, speaking in jive. So, even, like, I remember playing trombone in a horn band, in a jazz band, and I was really, I think, grateful to be in this band, because it was one of the top-rated bands in the country. And I was put in as second trombone.

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Jerry Corley: Which means you get the solos in jazz. And so, there was this… I'd never seen a chart before, a musical chart before, with just the chords for a trombonist. I always… I'm used to notes, and I was like, okay, what the fuck do I do with this? And so I just pretended I knew what I was doing, and I played.

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Jerry Corley: And evidently did a good job, because the trombone player next to me, Bass Bone Jones, about a 6'4 black dude, right, with bass trombone, goes, oh man, that was bad.

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Jerry Corley: And I was like, I'm sorry. He goes, no, man, dude, bad means good. I said, what happens if you're really bad? He goes, well, then you're sorry, right? And I thought that was just a funny…

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Jerry Corley: interaction.

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Jerry Corley: Of the language, right? So it's like, there's so many different ways we can approach this. Think about stoner language, millennial language, Gen Z language, versus adult language, like, how we can get lost. Like, you take just ISMO by himself with the word S, you know, look up the word S, it's only 3 letters, but if you look it up and apply it towards different things…

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Jerry Corley: Like, if you look it up in the Bible.

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Jerry Corley: Ass, whether it's… like, if you look up ass in the Bible, in, like, the King James Version of the Bible, it shows up 86 times.

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Jerry Corley: 86 mentions of the word ass. Asses, meaning multiple asses, there's 64 mentions of that word, and asses, meaning possessive asses, it's the ass's ass, right? 4. So a total of 154 mentions of

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Jerry Corley: the word ass in the Bible. There's more ass in the Bible than there is Friday night at Spearmint Rhino.

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Jerry Corley: So, now I'm doing ass being Spearmint Rhino, a strip club.

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Jerry Corley: Right? There's more ass in the Bible than there is at a Friday Night Spearmint Rhino. That's a fun gag, because one's a strip club, the other one's a Bible, not supposed to be mentioned, you know.

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Jerry Corley: But there was… it's just funny that the word ass appears so many times, right? So you can have fun with that, just taking that one word, how many, you know, how many applications do I have? I always made fun of people who said, I'm a grown-ass man.

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Jerry Corley: No, you're not.

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Jerry Corley: If you're saying grown-ass man, you're not grown.

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Jerry Corley: You're still a child. You know, learn to speak before you call yourself grown, right? So, it's like, or when people… how many, how many other places do people mispronounce words or misuse words?

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lina alva: social media, probably, like, some people… I've caught people say, conversate. They might be saying something really profound, and then they say conversate, and that's when I check out, and I'm like, you are not trusting.

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lina alva: Just deceive myself by listening to you.

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Jerry Corley: That's funny. Like, if you, like, you're watching somebody on YouTube as an influencer, trying to be an influencer, something like that, and they use the word conversate, you'd be like, you know, you're like, yeah, I think I'm done.

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lina alva: No, like, I'm done.

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Kaz Okamoto: I can't stand the word adulting.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: Adulting. What the fuck is that? So, either you're an adult, or you're not an adult, so… does that mean you're…

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Kaz Okamoto: Doing stuff that adults would do versus you.

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Kaz Okamoto: Kind of…

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, I think a lot of people, it's become a word that people are using to, like, they're sort of, like, they feel like having to be an adult has been imposed on them, and so they're like, I've been trying to… I've been doing some adulting lately, meaning, you know, what do you mean, paying your bills and making dinner, or something like that?

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Kaz Okamoto: child support?

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Jerry Corley: Paying child support? Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: So…

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Kaz Okamoto: I saw your hand up, and I butted in.

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Jerry Corley: Who, who, who did you put in on?

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Kaz Okamoto: Pappy. Pappy.

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Jerry Corley: What do you got, Pappy?

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Pappy: I was just gonna say, as I was listening to the guy, number one, that he has a beautiful face for…

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Pappy: comedy, combined with his… his Finnish background, and both of those in combo. And I thought, okay, so could somebody not…

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Pappy: from Finland do this, and I thought.

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Pappy: Well, yeah, I mean, you kind of explained it, and my take was, oh, yeah, just be a dumb person, and you could… you could kind of do the same routine, so it doesn't, you know, his ethnic background certainly added to the routine, but it wasn't necessary for it to be a good routine.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, exactly, like the stoner doesn't know, you know, two years of anatomy, he still doesn't know shit about the stars, right? And it's like that kind of misinterpretation of those words. They're using… that's using a lot of the homophones. Sound… or not a homophone, but it's a sounds-like.

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Jerry Corley: It's like a malapropism, but it sounds like another word. So, it's a form of wordplay. So, I think there's, there's some activity there that you can mess around with. Let's take a look at,

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Jerry Corley: Take a look at, another comic here. We have ISMO. Oh, here's one of my favorites, a one-liner guy. You see, you know, you can watch Milton Jones all day long, he does fun stuff.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: If your name is Andre… Don't end your texts with a kiss!

528
01:20:24.710 --> 01:20:29.439
Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I was walking along the other day, someone threw some shampoo at me.

529
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Turns out it was real poo.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: The great thing about traveling round is you find out a little bit about the places you're visiting. I didn't realize, but years ago in the city of Chester, all the men got together and they went to live in Manchester.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Centuries ago, all the women got together, And they're still getting ready.

532
01:21:06.210 --> 01:21:11.849
Audio shared by Jerry Corley: If a Welshman says, this is my fantasy, he might just be talking about his fizzy drink.

533
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I did a show in Liverpool recently, bloke came up to me afterwards, he said, hey, listen.

534
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I wanna talk.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I said, well, just keep practicing.

536
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So I'm on holiday with John Lennon, and we get to the edge of Cornwall, and he turns to me and he said, imagine there's no Devon.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Do you know, not long after that, he wrote the song.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Help.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So when I was in Ireland, the audience threw shamrocks at me.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: And it turns out they were real rocks.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I went back to my old school the other day, it was weird being back, the smell of varnish, the echo of the science lab, lab, lab, lab.

542
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: In my day, the place was run by a bloke with no arms and no legs and no body. It was called The Head.

543
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: What's available was this other bloke with no arms, no legs, no body, and a cowboy hat.

544
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Who's Mr. Brown?

545
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Between you and me, ladies and gentlemen, I was… Bullied at school.

546
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: My pirates, you're not helping.

547
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I remember once at school, my bike was smashed up. It was my own fault, really, I just handed out leaflets saying, bullying, let's break the cycle.

548
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Have you noticed that if you Google the phrase, lost medieval servant boy…

549
01:23:23.780 --> 01:23:26.440
Audio shared by Jerry Corley: It says this page can don't be found.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so, lots of wordplay there. Some of it was definitely, more inside jokes, British inside jokes than they were, you know, you know, widespread jokes. But, like, Paige was, is funny, because of the medieval…

551
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Jerry Corley: You know, page, you know, this page could not be found. Lost, medieval.

552
01:23:59.320 --> 01:24:09.879
Jerry Corley: Aaron Boy, this page could not be found, that's funny, right? So, he does some wordplay there. Lots of good wordplay there, just taking phrases, what else can that be?

553
01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:29.449
Jerry Corley: So, that's Milton, that's Milton Jones. You want to find, you know, just see wordplay after wordplay after wordplay. You watch him, he's really good at that. The other person is Tom Cotter, you can look at that. But, let's get into some of our own writing at this point, because we're now at the bottom of the, 11 hour.

554
01:24:29.450 --> 01:24:34.150
Jerry Corley: So this is where we usually jump in and start to, do our thing.

555
01:24:34.240 --> 01:24:40.100
Jerry Corley: So, let me see if we can give you something to think about during the break.

556
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Jerry Corley: The alternate definition. Select one of five words, select 5 words.

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Jerry Corley: From the, these selections here below, right? And then, list two interpretations of each word. Outstanding, patient, interest, commitment, discharge, right? Each one of these words.

558
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Jerry Corley: Gives you a different… could give you a different meaning. You can select several of your own, like sale.

559
01:25:14.060 --> 01:25:15.230
Jerry Corley: boot.

560
01:25:15.620 --> 01:25:19.790
Jerry Corley: Let's see, withdrawal.

561
01:25:20.330 --> 01:25:37.389
Jerry Corley: any kind of, like, a double meaning. So, what I would like to do is, like, list every interpretation, so for each word, list, like, 3 different, like, interpretations. Like, for example, standard definition, industry-specific definition.

562
01:25:37.530 --> 01:25:41.530
Jerry Corley: Figurative meaning… Slang or sexual meaning.

563
01:25:41.810 --> 01:25:48.269
Jerry Corley: any phrase containing the word, list a phrase containing the word, and a deliberate misinterpretation. You don't have to do them all.

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Jerry Corley: This is just an exercise to go through. This is one of the first exercises I was given when I first started to learn, joke writing, so I'm now giving it to you, taking 5 words, finding the different interpretations of each of the words, and, like.

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Jerry Corley: This is… these are just prompts. An industry-specific definition, meaning outstanding.

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Jerry Corley: Could be, if you're going to the legal field, an outstanding warrant.

567
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Jerry Corley: I said, thank you. Turns out you have an outstanding warrant. Oh, you know, my girlfriend calls it a dick. So you're gonna… any kind of way you can play that, right? Sort of outstanding could be you have, my son, the principal said my son has had some outstanding work.

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Jerry Corley: I said, oh, that's good to know. That means he didn't… hasn't turned in some work, right? So it could be, like, you got an A for being outstanding, but if you have outstanding work, you could wind up with an F.

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Jerry Corley: Right, so you can play it that way, too. So, you see what we got going on there? Does anybody have any questions with that… with that right there? What the assignment is?

570
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Jerry Corley: No, you good? So, we're gonna take a 10-minute break. While we're on that break.

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Jerry Corley: Think about those… think about some of those words, and see if you want to apply them, and see what you can come up with.

572
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Jerry Corley: So let's take our break, take a screen break, and we'll come back, and we'll… if you need more time, let me know, and we'll start writing, on the… on this particular exercise.

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Jerry Corley: We'll see you guys in 10 me notes.

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01:41:56.040 --> 01:42:04.669
Jerry Corley: Okay. Alright, so we are back, and during the break, somebody had, texted or chatted in the chat.

575
01:42:04.830 --> 01:42:10.079
Jerry Corley: Asked me, to define what a spoonerism is.

576
01:42:10.510 --> 01:42:14.869
Jerry Corley: And so, in my Evernote, I have all these literary devices.

577
01:42:15.490 --> 01:42:20.959
Jerry Corley: That are being… that I'm applying towards my new book.

578
01:42:21.210 --> 01:42:28.030
Jerry Corley: joke-writing secrets black book, meaning all these things I haven't covered in the first book.

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Jerry Corley: And, you know, one of them is Spoonerisms. You know, Spoonerisms is one of those ones I always forget, and it's a little… it's almost like, in a way, it's like a pig Latin way of talking, right? You use… you take the,

580
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Jerry Corley: you take, you know, two main words, like Cinderella and the Prince, and you swap out the first part, and you basically, you know, swap out with each word the first part of the word. So it would wind up being, like, Prinderella and the synths.

581
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Jerry Corley: Right, so printerella in the sense, and then you go, now the storil of the Mori is this.

582
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Jerry Corley: If you ever go to a Bancy Fall and you want to prant some hints to lol and fuv with you, don't forget to slop your dripper.

583
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Jerry Corley: Or drop your slipper. You see what I'm saying? It's like, it's,

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Jerry Corley: The reason why I brought up spoonerisms is, you know.

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Jerry Corley: Milton, Jones, used to use a lot of spoonerisms, and then he started to lose the audience. So, it's just a lot to keep up with, it goes really fast. So, that's a spoonerism.

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Jerry Corley: So, it's one of those things that, we learn. There's also, like, Chiasmus in that, list. I have, Internal Rhymes in there, Paraprost Dokians on that list.

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Jerry Corley: Anti-metabolize…

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Jerry Corley: There's all kinds of stuff. Now, chiasmus is like taking a phrase and then inverting the phrase, right? So, or reorganizing the phrase right next to the first part of the phrase, like, ask not what your country could do for you, ask what you could do for your country. That's, chiasmus, right? Caesar said, I came, I saw, I conquered. I like to say, I saw, I came.

589
01:44:22.210 --> 01:44:24.510
Jerry Corley: And they rated it not suitable for television.

590
01:44:24.620 --> 01:44:29.379
Jerry Corley: Do you realize on TV you could say you pricked your finger, but you can't say you fingered your prick?

591
01:44:30.030 --> 01:44:39.880
Jerry Corley: So, it's like taking a phrase, flipping it, seeing what you come up with. Now, chiasmus is a reorganization of the words in a sentence.

592
01:44:40.140 --> 01:44:45.060
Jerry Corley: But anti-metaboli is exactly reversed.

593
01:44:45.310 --> 01:44:47.240
Jerry Corley: So, it's a much more difficult

594
01:44:47.360 --> 01:44:54.370
Jerry Corley: need to accomplish. But it's like, so I just wanted to, you'll see, like, I'll jump over, I'll show you the,

595
01:44:54.920 --> 01:45:00.669
Jerry Corley: I'll unshare and then reshare, because I want to show you my Evernote and what that looks like.

596
01:45:01.330 --> 01:45:08.830
Jerry Corley: these literary devices. This is how much I don't know how to pronounce The,

597
01:45:09.410 --> 01:45:26.600
Jerry Corley: Anti-metaboli. I have to have the video in here, my notes, to remind me how to, how to pronounce it, so it's taken me a while. So, look how it's spelled, anti, anti-metaboli. So, antimetaboli, anti-metavole, right? It's like, I…

598
01:45:26.710 --> 01:45:34.910
Jerry Corley: For the life of me, I couldn't pronounce it for a while, and so I had to have this, like, pronunciation video on here just to remind me.

599
01:45:34.960 --> 01:45:38.420
Jerry Corley: So, so chiasmus is not quite…

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01:45:38.430 --> 01:45:58.199
Jerry Corley: anti-metabolism is, like, really inverting that phrase word for word, whereas a chiasmus is reorganization. And often, today, chiasmus is used, or is the common statement, to say, just reversing the phrase, right? So,

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01:45:59.400 --> 01:46:14.850
Jerry Corley: So it's like, like, for example, like, some hotels have continental breakfast. My hotel had the consequential breakfast. The good news is, kids eat free. Unlike the Holiday Inn on Cannibal Island, where you eat kids free.

602
01:46:15.950 --> 01:46:24.549
Jerry Corley: See, see what I, you know, you can… that's a little note I was doing with just some wordplay, and just a fun little exercise.

603
01:46:24.710 --> 01:46:33.329
Jerry Corley: It's like if I had, like, kids eat free, and everyone flipping around and using, eat, you eat kids free.

604
01:46:33.500 --> 01:46:42.750
Jerry Corley: So that could be… that's a chiasmus, right? We're flipping that phrase. And then that becomes wordplay, you know? So,

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Jerry Corley: So, and I build the story. You know, one time I got food poisoning on the road, and the event booker asked what happened. I said, some hotels have continental breakfast. My hotel had the consequential breakfast.

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01:46:54.920 --> 01:47:14.079
Jerry Corley: The good news is that kids eat free, unlike the Holiday Inn in Cannonville Island, where you eat kids free. So if I did that on stage, which I did that night, you know, it gets a nice little laugh there, and it's just basically, wordplay. There's also, you take a phrase like, you can't judge a book by its cover.

607
01:47:14.550 --> 01:47:21.469
Jerry Corley: And so, I took that phrase and I just put it on the page, which was, you can't book a judge by his cover.

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01:47:21.620 --> 01:47:33.969
Jerry Corley: And so I said, how would that play out? Now, the very next day, there was a story, and a guy got pulled over for a DUI in Alabama. He was a judge, but he showed a fake ID.

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01:47:34.120 --> 01:47:47.719
Jerry Corley: When he was taken into jail, so they arrested him and charged him and booked him under the fake ID. But then, a couple of cops were like, that's not John Campbell, that's… that's Judge…

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01:47:47.720 --> 01:47:56.709
Jerry Corley: you know, Judge Hauer, right? And, is that… that's Judge Hauer? Right? You know, and they're like, yeah, so they had to rebook him.

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01:47:56.720 --> 01:48:00.630
Jerry Corley: with his regular… Name.

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Jerry Corley: And so, so, you know, which leads you to believe that you can't book a judge by his cover, meaning his fake ID. So, being able to take that phrase and apply it in a story, I was wondering, how am I going to be able to do that? And that story came up the very next day. You can't book a judge by his cover. So you can play around with those, those words. So you can see that there's lots of different…

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01:48:21.260 --> 01:48:37.849
Jerry Corley: ways to apply, like Monda Green's egg, corn, Spoonerisms, rhymes, alliteration, internal interior rhymes, slanted rhymes, paraprost Dokians. So, lots of different ways to do wordplay, and mess around with that. So let's get back to our…

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Jerry Corley: Topic. Did anybody have any luck with the exercise during the break?

615
01:48:44.600 --> 01:48:46.989
Jerry Corley: And if you did, what did you come up with?

616
01:48:49.710 --> 01:48:53.470
Jerry Corley: I don't see any hands. Where's… where's my… there it is. There you are.

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01:48:53.680 --> 01:48:55.989
Jerry Corley: Oh, yes, here we go. Janet, what do you got?

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Janet Rapala: Well, I just had some fast ones. I had 4. Outstanding… I was like, he's outstanding in his field.

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Janet Rapala: Of corn.

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01:49:05.290 --> 01:49:07.780
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's funny.

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Janet Rapala: field.

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01:49:08.960 --> 01:49:16.220
Janet Rapala: For patient, I'm like, the patient in the ER was not very patient. He kept coming to the desk and wanting to know when he was gonna be next.

623
01:49:17.100 --> 01:49:21.519
Janet Rapala: Interest in the topic, or compounded interest.

624
01:49:22.290 --> 01:49:26.479
Janet Rapala: Commitment to the craft, or commitment to a facility.

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01:49:27.010 --> 01:49:27.850
Jerry Corley: Yes.

626
01:49:27.850 --> 01:49:32.659
Janet Rapala: And discharged from services, or discharged from a wound, or someplace else.

627
01:49:33.300 --> 01:49:37.240
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's like, I got married to a crazy woman, she was committed.

628
01:49:38.970 --> 01:49:47.349
Jerry Corley: Right, you can have something like that, too. I dated a gal who worked at a bank. I was totally into her, but she had zero interest.

629
01:49:48.190 --> 01:49:49.730
Jerry Corley: Right? You could have, like.

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Jerry Corley: See, I like what you did with that, you know, same… it's so good. I mean, you only had, like, you know, minutes to work on this, so that… you did a great job for… it gives you an idea, you're opening up your brain to the possibilities. Most people think linearly, comedians have to train themselves to look at double meanings and things like that, so good work. Cliff, what do you got?

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Cliff Spenger: I was… you just told the joke I came up with, but my way of saying it was, I got some… I gained some interest at the bank, but it's not in my account, the clerk was flirting with me.

632
01:50:23.960 --> 01:50:28.219
Jerry Corley: That's a totally different way of saying what I said. That's good.

633
01:50:29.420 --> 01:50:36.610
Jerry Corley: I gained some interest at the bank, not in my account, this clerk was flirting with me, and

634
01:50:37.050 --> 01:50:39.660
Jerry Corley: So Ralph and I are going out next week.

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01:50:42.410 --> 01:50:43.220
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

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01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:44.609
Cliff Spenger: So that's good.

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01:50:46.010 --> 01:50:48.099
Jerry Corley: Did you get any of these other ones?

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01:50:48.240 --> 01:51:01.699
Cliff Spenger: I just got the definitions of them, but I definitely see that, you know, patient, you can be patient or be a patient, you know, sick or be good at waiting for things.

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01:51:01.950 --> 01:51:10.589
Cliff Spenger: Oh, you know, more than me, oh, you know, I'm just standing there, and, oh, he's outstanding in his field.

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01:51:11.010 --> 01:51:13.660
Cliff Spenger: Right, right. You know, when I'm performing as a tree.

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01:51:13.660 --> 01:51:19.250
Jerry Corley: Right, right, exactly. I was just gonna say, performing as a tree. He's outstanding in his field.

642
01:51:19.440 --> 01:51:20.850
Jerry Corley: So you could say that,

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01:51:21.180 --> 01:51:39.349
Jerry Corley: I'm in a play, or I do a performance at festivals, and I basically, my role is I play a tree, and I just stand there, right? And it's like, sometimes people come up and I surprise them, because I'm not just a tree, I'm a person, and it's a tree, but they don't see it right away.

644
01:51:39.350 --> 01:51:41.879
Jerry Corley: So it's like, but I got reviewed.

645
01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:48.850
Jerry Corley: That was basically, you know, said Cliff plays a tree, he's outstanding in his field.

646
01:51:49.350 --> 01:51:53.659
Jerry Corley: You know? And that could be one way to show the headline. That's a fun one.

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01:51:54.110 --> 01:51:54.750
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

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01:51:55.220 --> 01:51:56.270
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

649
01:51:57.880 --> 01:52:00.009
Jerry Corley: Anyway, what do you got, Pappy?

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01:52:02.090 --> 01:52:06.870
Pappy: This was a tough one. This is gonna take some, practice, but,

651
01:52:07.320 --> 01:52:09.809
Pappy: I had some inpatient surgery done.

652
01:52:10.290 --> 01:52:12.700
Pappy: The doctor was 1 inch tall.

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01:52:17.160 --> 01:52:32.900
Jerry Corley: I'm trying to get in a… I'm trying to get, what, the inpatient surgery done, that's good. It's like, but I like where you're going with this, because now we had patient and patients, but there's inpatient, outpatient, you know? My doctor wished I would have some patients.

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01:52:33.770 --> 01:52:38.120
Jerry Corley: Right? You can play that, that's good, too. What else you got, Pappy?

655
01:52:38.120 --> 01:52:44.859
Pappy: Just one more. Medical stuff is confusing. Inpatient, outpatient, inpatient, outpatient.

656
01:52:45.020 --> 01:52:51.240
Pappy: I made a mistake picking my provider. I thought the sign said, Therapist.

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01:52:56.430 --> 01:52:57.500
Jerry Corley: It's good.

658
01:52:57.740 --> 01:52:58.850
Jerry Corley: That's good.

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01:52:58.870 --> 01:53:15.450
Jerry Corley: Any, anybody else have some wordplay on that one? This is, some people said, like Pappy said, that was kind of tough, because they're not, you know, they're not words that… they're not, like, simple, single-syllable words that give us a… that give us a quick opportunity, but,

660
01:53:15.450 --> 01:53:20.440
Jerry Corley: You know, just up above, like, choose 5 words from the word bank.

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01:53:21.470 --> 01:53:31.329
Jerry Corley: You know, we could have bank, you know, or maybe you might not have any interest, right? Right there. You could say, once we have bank in there, the word bank, and then it's like,

662
01:53:31.620 --> 01:53:36.229
Jerry Corley: So you get it like those words. Anybody else have on that? Jack Rain, you have your hand up?

663
01:53:39.630 --> 01:53:46.330
Jack Rain: Yeah, My fiance told me she lost patience with me.

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Jack Rain: Guess that means I'm a pretty shitty doctor.

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01:53:49.060 --> 01:53:50.800
Jerry Corley: Hahaha, good!

666
01:53:51.040 --> 01:53:53.760
Jerry Corley: Good, yeah, there you go. What else you got?

667
01:53:59.050 --> 01:54:05.659
Jack Rain: I'm like, all I am is patience, so I'm going things… I'm just… I just have words around patience. I just jumped in.

668
01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:14.789
Jerry Corley: Okay, good, okay, good. Think of some others while, while you're taking a break, like, think of commitment, interest, discharge,

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Jerry Corley: You know…

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01:54:15.570 --> 01:54:17.839
Cliff Spenger: I got one about discharge.

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01:54:17.990 --> 01:54:19.499
Jerry Corley: What do you got, Cliff?

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01:54:20.480 --> 01:54:30.080
Cliff Spenger: A patient is, reviewing their bill, and they say, what's this $35 for discharge?

673
01:54:30.610 --> 01:54:35.259
Cliff Spenger: And, oh, no, no, they say, what's discharge?

674
01:54:35.690 --> 01:54:44.039
Cliff Spenger: And, they explained to another, like, oh, that's for your… that's what it costs for when we took your blood.

675
01:54:45.450 --> 01:54:45.990
Cliff Spenger: Some…

676
01:54:45.990 --> 01:54:46.359
Jerry Corley: I like…

677
01:54:46.360 --> 01:54:47.600
Cliff Spenger: Nothing could happen there as well.

678
01:54:47.600 --> 01:54:50.640
Jerry Corley: I, I, I like, I like where you're going with this, like, you know…

679
01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:51.700
Cliff Spenger: You're…

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01:54:51.700 --> 01:55:07.670
Jerry Corley: you're saying discharge. Hey, what's up with discharge? And it's like, you know, you know, it's like, what's up with discharge for $35? And it's like, well, that's like, well, that's what we, that's what, we ask you to pay us when we have to, check you out.

681
01:55:07.830 --> 01:55:09.350
Jerry Corley: Of the hospital.

682
01:55:10.040 --> 01:55:18.430
Jerry Corley: Right? So, discharge… discharge… man, they gave me this charge for just discharge… they gave me this… so you give me this charge for discharge?

683
01:55:18.610 --> 01:55:22.170
Jerry Corley: That's funny. I like the way that you… I like… I didn't think about that.

684
01:55:22.170 --> 01:55:23.210
Jack Rain: I got one.

685
01:55:24.050 --> 01:55:25.240
Jerry Corley: What do you got, Jack?

686
01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:26.829
Jack Rain: What do you spot?

687
01:55:27.010 --> 01:55:31.159
Jack Rain: the… The ca- the cashier asked me.

688
01:55:31.460 --> 01:55:36.660
Jack Rain: How are you doing? And I said, I usually go doo-doo over the toilet.

689
01:55:40.440 --> 01:55:44.210
Jerry Corley: How are you doing? How you doing? Do. Do?

690
01:55:44.210 --> 01:55:45.419
Cliff Spenger: How are you doing?

691
01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:48.300
Jerry Corley: All right, Jack. You too. Tell us how you doing?

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01:55:50.270 --> 01:56:04.600
Jerry Corley: She stuttered, she says, how you do-do-do-doing? And I was like, I usually go do-doing over the toilet. So give her a stammer when she says it twice, how you do-doing? And I said, I usually go do-do over the toilet. That's good.

693
01:56:06.780 --> 01:56:08.990
Jerry Corley: Kaz, what do you got?

694
01:56:11.200 --> 01:56:14.030
Kaz Okamoto: I got a fucking headache, but that's besides the point.

695
01:56:14.650 --> 01:56:16.210
Kaz Okamoto: So,

696
01:56:16.210 --> 01:56:17.889
Jerry Corley: I didn't think you were having sex.

697
01:56:17.890 --> 01:56:21.759
Kaz Okamoto: Oh, yeah, well, you know, it's oral.

698
01:56:21.760 --> 01:56:22.609
Jerry Corley: I got the headache.

699
01:56:22.610 --> 01:56:28.750
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, I know. I did an outstanding job by Outstanding in the rain.

700
01:56:29.190 --> 01:56:36.140
Jerry Corley: Oh, good. Yes, outstanding drabbi, outstanding in the rain. Standing out in the rain. That's good, too. Yeah, good.

701
01:56:36.140 --> 01:56:37.300
Kaz Okamoto: Oh, sorry.

702
01:56:37.300 --> 01:56:38.270
Jerry Corley: Keep going, keep going.

703
01:56:38.270 --> 01:56:40.669
Kaz Okamoto: I'm too impatient to be patient.

704
01:56:43.060 --> 01:56:46.830
Jerry Corley: And all my doctor is like, I'm one of… and I'm one of 100 patients.

705
01:56:47.350 --> 01:56:48.589
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, that's a good one.

706
01:56:48.590 --> 01:56:51.270
Jerry Corley: Yeah, so take it for a try to take it one more layer.

707
01:56:51.270 --> 01:56:57.519
Kaz Okamoto: I had no interest in opening a low-interest account at that uninteresting bank.

708
01:56:59.790 --> 01:57:11.620
Jerry Corley: That's good. Very good. See, it was fun when you take it to three meanings of the word. Like Jimmy Carr said, you have one pawn, you get a chuckle. Two pawns, you get a bigger chuckle. Three pawns, applause break.

709
01:57:11.930 --> 01:57:19.890
Kaz Okamoto: Okay, I'll work on the 3 thing. The next one, you call it a commitment. I call it…

710
01:57:20.020 --> 01:57:23.009
Kaz Okamoto: committed. Some people call it marriage.

711
01:57:23.230 --> 01:57:24.540
Cliff Spenger: Good!

712
01:57:24.540 --> 01:57:25.280
Jerry Corley: Yeah, good.

713
01:57:26.690 --> 01:57:33.969
Kaz Okamoto: Sorry. Okay, I had a horrible discharge, so I made an appointment for the gynecologist.

714
01:57:33.970 --> 01:57:35.369
Jerry Corley: Sorry, I just had to…

715
01:57:38.860 --> 01:57:41.400
Kaz Okamoto: The girl thing! What can I say?

716
01:57:44.340 --> 01:57:47.009
Cliff Spenger: Well, you called it horrible.

717
01:57:47.010 --> 01:57:54.889
Jerry Corley: So I was at the gynecologist, and they gave me the bill. I said, what is discharge? He's like, well, that's… we had to… we had to… Oh, that's the… Yeah, we had to, you know…

718
01:57:54.890 --> 01:57:55.880
Kaz Okamoto: The discharge.

719
01:57:55.880 --> 01:58:05.490
Jerry Corley: I had to pay for the anti-bacterial for the discharge. You know, what did, you know, that's good. The discharge and discharge. Good.

720
01:58:07.340 --> 01:58:09.440
Jerry Corley: Any, Cliff, what do you got?

721
01:58:11.380 --> 01:58:23.319
Cliff Spenger: I was going along the same lines as her with the committed. It's like, the relationship wasn't going… the only thing we had the commitment behind was, getting each other committed, something like that.

722
01:58:23.760 --> 01:58:26.980
Jerry Corley: Good. Yeah, getting each other committed.

723
01:58:26.980 --> 01:58:28.570
Kaz Okamoto: Everyone who can't hear… Cliff.

724
01:58:28.570 --> 01:58:29.470
Cliff Spenger: Don't turn it.

725
01:58:29.470 --> 01:58:30.819
Jerry Corley: Turn off your video.

726
01:58:31.450 --> 01:58:32.210
Kaz Okamoto: He did.

727
01:58:32.880 --> 01:58:34.529
Jerry Corley: Oh, this video's still on there.

728
01:58:34.530 --> 01:58:36.100
Jack Rain: I got one, I got one.

729
01:58:36.470 --> 01:58:39.920
Kaz Okamoto: I can't hear Cliff's audio very well. Is that just my…

730
01:58:39.920 --> 01:58:41.180
Jerry Corley: It's a broadband.

731
01:58:41.590 --> 01:58:43.929
Jerry Corley: It'll be… off his video, we'd be able to

732
01:58:47.550 --> 01:58:48.620
Jerry Corley: There we go.

733
01:58:49.390 --> 01:58:50.700
Jack Rain: I got one, I got one.

734
01:58:52.740 --> 01:58:53.580
Jerry Corley: What do you got?

735
01:58:54.330 --> 01:59:01.639
Jack Rain: Currently, I am going on the 405 interstate, which I hate, but intercourse, I love.

736
01:59:04.930 --> 01:59:07.360
Jerry Corley: Oh, Interstate Intercourse, yeah, yeah.

737
01:59:07.360 --> 01:59:14.629
Jack Rain: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hate the interstate. I actually said something in my head. I said, I hate… I hate taking the inter… I hate doing the interstate, but…

738
01:59:14.770 --> 01:59:16.720
Jack Rain: Intercourse? Anytime.

739
01:59:17.270 --> 01:59:25.800
Jerry Corley: You know, my girlfriend, she's great, she's, my girlfriend's great, but, you know, she, like,

740
01:59:27.890 --> 01:59:36.919
Jerry Corley: My girlfriend's really great, but she likes to… she loves to go on the road a lot, you know, and I hate the interstate. I love the intercourse, but hate the interstate.

741
01:59:36.920 --> 01:59:43.509
Jack Rain: He's getting one. My girlfriend has major road, rage.

742
01:59:43.860 --> 01:59:46.419
Jack Rain: But she's also really good at

743
01:59:46.550 --> 01:59:49.800
Jack Rain: giving Roadhead. So, combine the two, it's pretty awesome.

744
01:59:50.230 --> 01:59:57.640
Jerry Corley: Road rage, road head, they go side by side, you know? The interstate sucks, but the intercourse is great.

745
01:59:59.790 --> 02:00:02.710
Jack Rain: Alright, that… that was, that was the act out.

746
02:00:02.710 --> 02:00:04.340
Jerry Corley: That was a good roadhead.

747
02:00:05.490 --> 02:00:24.639
Jerry Corley: I remember my girlfriend, you know, I remember having a conversation with her, and I said, you know, look, babe, you know, she said she likes to have sex with the lights out, and I said, you know, babe, I'd love to make you feel a lot more, confident and, turn out the lights, but then I wouldn't be able to see the road.

748
02:00:29.310 --> 02:00:53.760
Jerry Corley: That would be, like, your… never mind. Alright, so, so we have that wordplay. So now we just picked words and selected them, and I was… all I did was, like, pick 5 words and give you, an opportunity to do some interpretations. We could do this with a whole bunch of words. If we take patient, someone's receiving medical treatment, person capable of waiting, be patient, the phrase, and impatient, patient.

749
02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:57.509
Jerry Corley: The doctor has lost his patience, and then lost the patient.

750
02:00:57.900 --> 02:01:01.539
Jerry Corley: The doctor lost his patience after losing the patient.

751
02:01:02.260 --> 02:01:15.649
Jerry Corley: Step 3, write these premises. Use 3 different meanings of the same word. My doctor said I needed… he needed me to be patient. I said, at these prices, I'd rather be a customer.

752
02:01:16.500 --> 02:01:39.709
Jerry Corley: That's funny. Step four, compress, remove every word that does not protect the assumption or deliver the surprise. So there's a way to expand this, particular exercise by going further. So one of the things we're doing is we're just coming up with the wordplay. Then the idea is, how do I expand the premise and put it into an act-out or a situation or some context? So there is, like.

753
02:01:39.710 --> 02:01:57.639
Jerry Corley: This particular exercise, should, with the 5 words, should wind up giving you 15 jokes. So that's kind of the key, but for the sake of this class, it's something you could do, better with at home. And you could also choose your own 5 words, too. You don't have to choose the ones I give you.

754
02:01:57.640 --> 02:02:03.639
Jerry Corley: Because that then takes you to the next level. Phrase inflection workout, one of my favorites.

755
02:02:05.090 --> 02:02:08.779
Jerry Corley: So take the phrase, laughter is the best medicine.

756
02:02:11.080 --> 02:02:15.269
Jerry Corley: And then say the phrase several times, emphasizing

757
02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:30.159
Jerry Corley: subsequent word in the line. So, laughter is the best medicine, laughter is the best medicine, laughter is THE best medicine, laughter is the best medicine, laughter is the best medicine.

758
02:02:30.470 --> 02:02:46.810
Jerry Corley: So, now question the emphasized word. Like, is laughter really medicine? Is it the best medicine? Who decided it was medicine? Like, is it better than anesthesia? What kind of family considered something else medicine?

759
02:02:46.810 --> 02:02:50.799
Jerry Corley: What happens if someone follows the phrase, literally?

760
02:02:50.800 --> 02:03:07.689
Jerry Corley: who would benefit financially from convincing this, convincing us of this, that, that laughter is the best medicine. So, so anyway, so I want you to take this, I'll… I'll keep you away from my answers. So, take laughter as the best medicine.

761
02:03:08.040 --> 02:03:12.110
Jerry Corley: Using the inflection exercise, come up with

762
02:03:12.660 --> 02:03:22.220
Jerry Corley: different interpretations of laughter as the best medicine. You could even use what we did before, let's make him a dumb person, as Pappy said, or a stoner.

763
02:03:22.530 --> 02:03:32.030
Jerry Corley: How would that… how would that be defined? You can sometimes put yourself in the shoes and see if you can find that different interpretation there. Laughter is the best medicine.

764
02:03:32.870 --> 02:03:38.100
Jerry Corley: So, come up with a couple of comebacks after you say laughter is the best medicine, using that phrase.

765
02:03:38.460 --> 02:03:42.059
Jerry Corley: And I will give you 7 minutes.

766
02:11:32.910 --> 02:11:36.660
Jerry Corley: Alright. Alright, let's see what we came up with. Jack Rain, you have your hand up.

767
02:11:36.660 --> 02:11:41.010
Jack Rain: Yeah… Laughter is the best medicine.

768
02:11:41.590 --> 02:11:51.139
Jack Rain: It's also best for conversation starters, especially at funerals, He was going too soon!

769
02:11:53.120 --> 02:11:56.329
Jerry Corley: We missed you on that last act out there, Jack.

770
02:11:56.330 --> 02:11:56.860
Jack Rain: -Oh.

771
02:11:56.910 --> 02:11:57.420
Cliff Spenger: I'm…

772
02:11:57.420 --> 02:12:06.519
Jack Rain: Okay. Laughter is the best medicine. It's also a great conversation starter at funerals. Man, he left us too soon!

773
02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:11.720
Jerry Corley: Good, yeah, I like it, yeah. He left us way too soon, huh?

774
02:12:12.300 --> 02:12:12.700
Jerry Corley: That's good.

775
02:12:12.700 --> 02:12:14.839
Jack Rain: Laughter is the best medicine.

776
02:12:15.250 --> 02:12:17.410
Jack Rain: It WAS Quaaludes.

777
02:12:17.850 --> 02:12:21.800
Jack Rain: Laughter…

778
02:12:21.800 --> 02:12:22.759
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's good.

779
02:12:23.050 --> 02:12:30.450
Jack Rain: Laughter is THE best medicine. I forgot what I have for that one. I can't really write anything down. Alright, I'm out.

780
02:12:30.740 --> 02:12:34.730
Jerry Corley: That's good. Good, good work, Jack. Lina, what do you got?

781
02:12:35.300 --> 02:12:38.649
lina alva: Yes. They say laughter is the best medicine.

782
02:12:39.040 --> 02:12:41.920
lina alva: Apparently, my mother didn't believe in medicine.

783
02:12:42.650 --> 02:12:55.280
lina alva: I mean, I did end up at 18 years old in Hollywood, being amused to has-been rock stars from the 80s. I mean, mother, couldn't have you done a better job, or at least accepted the fact that

784
02:12:55.550 --> 02:12:58.070
lina alva: that psychiatrist wanted me on Prozac.

785
02:12:58.770 --> 02:13:00.170
Jerry Corley: That's good. That's good.

786
02:13:00.170 --> 02:13:00.920
lina alva: Is it?

787
02:13:01.360 --> 02:13:03.709
Jerry Corley: Yeah, no, I like where you're going with that, yeah.

788
02:13:04.120 --> 02:13:07.489
lina alva: I added that little bit at the end, but I'm like, okay, it could be funny if I…

789
02:13:07.490 --> 02:13:12.639
Jerry Corley: Yeah, I guess you should have taken that doctor's advice and let me be on Prozac.

790
02:13:12.840 --> 02:13:21.039
Jerry Corley: You know, that's good. Maybe that… maybe that's why the doctor, right, maybe that's why the doctor thinks the best… my best medicine today is Prozac.

791
02:13:21.510 --> 02:13:34.789
Jerry Corley: That could be an if-then statement, or in the past to future. In the past, my mother didn't, use laughter. I was like, now, didn't think laughter was the best medicine.

792
02:13:34.790 --> 02:13:38.070
lina alva: That's why I ended up fitting a rock star when I was 18.

793
02:13:38.070 --> 02:13:42.320
Jerry Corley: Well, and then you can say, that's why the doctor thinks the best medicine today is Prozac.

794
02:13:43.800 --> 02:13:45.610
lina alva: What about… the other…

795
02:13:45.610 --> 02:13:50.279
Jerry Corley: Yeah, I like the other part, you know, maybe that's why I wound up dating a rock star when I was 18.

796
02:13:52.740 --> 02:13:53.400
lina alva: Everything gets better.

797
02:13:53.570 --> 02:13:55.230
Jerry Corley: That's good. Yeah, that's good.

798
02:13:55.770 --> 02:14:00.439
Jerry Corley: And now, now the doctor thinks the best medicine is Prozac. Yes, and then tied it away.

799
02:14:00.440 --> 02:14:03.749
lina alva: Yeah, okay, yeah, I like, I like all that, yes, I like it.

800
02:14:03.750 --> 02:14:08.619
Jerry Corley: It keeps the joke theme going. That's good. Yeah, good play on that. Cliff…

801
02:14:09.580 --> 02:14:22.000
Cliff Spenger: Laughter is the best medicine, so the lap doctor's prescription read, take 3 laughs before after breakfast, 4 belly laughs at lunch, and piss yourself laughing before bed.

802
02:14:23.800 --> 02:14:32.560
Cliff Spenger: If laughter is the best medicine, you could call me a doctor. If my jokes die here tonight, you could call me the doctor of death.

803
02:14:32.830 --> 02:14:34.900
Jerry Corley: That's funny.

804
02:14:34.900 --> 02:14:35.530
Cliff Spenger: Dark Death.

805
02:14:35.530 --> 02:14:39.610
Jerry Corley: You can call me, yeah, like, call me the doctor of death.

806
02:14:41.640 --> 02:14:42.929
Jerry Corley: That's good, I like that.

807
02:14:43.100 --> 02:14:45.159
Cliff Spenger: Where the jokes go to death, yeah.

808
02:14:45.410 --> 02:14:45.770
Jack Rain: Oh, God.

809
02:14:45.770 --> 02:14:46.910
Jerry Corley: Go to die.

810
02:14:48.690 --> 02:14:50.320
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

811
02:14:52.710 --> 02:14:53.910
Cliff Spenger: That's it.

812
02:14:53.910 --> 02:15:00.870
Jerry Corley: Good. It's almost like, you know, you know, like we did with How Are You Doing Today? Same thing, same exercise. Like, instead of just taking

813
02:15:00.870 --> 02:15:16.120
Jerry Corley: the phrase for its, you know, normally intended meaning and accepting it, just as, like, you know, normal, we're investigating it further, right? And looking at the wordplay there. Who is, Jackie, is your hand

814
02:15:16.460 --> 02:15:17.080
Jerry Corley: up.

815
02:15:17.080 --> 02:15:22.750
Jack Rain: I got another one to add on, laughter is the best medicine.

816
02:15:22.940 --> 02:15:27.930
Jack Rain: Fuck, nevermind, I'm so sick, nevermind.

817
02:15:28.220 --> 02:15:29.539
Jerry Corley: I lost it.

818
02:15:29.930 --> 02:15:32.320
Jerry Corley: That's… that's alright. Pappy, what do you got?

819
02:15:33.390 --> 02:15:36.340
Pappy: Laughter is the best medicine.

820
02:15:37.160 --> 02:15:41.669
Pappy: A phrase that is banned at Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals.

821
02:15:45.570 --> 02:15:46.000
Pappy: Yeah, no.

822
02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:53.850
Jerry Corley: No wonder, you don't wonder in the pharmaceutical industry, you go to any pharmaceutical industry, nobody's… maybe that's why at the pharmaceutical industry, nobody's laughing.

823
02:15:54.610 --> 02:16:02.069
Pappy: Yeah, laughter is the best medicine. My parents spelled laughter H-E-R-O-I-N.

824
02:16:04.360 --> 02:16:05.110
Jerry Corley: That's good.

825
02:16:05.960 --> 02:16:13.069
Pappy: laughter is the best medicine. When I have the flu, I pull up a YouTube of Jerry Corley.

826
02:16:13.270 --> 02:16:18.269
Jerry Corley: That's good. That'll make you laugh.

827
02:16:18.270 --> 02:16:18.740
Pappy: That's it.

828
02:16:18.740 --> 02:16:20.179
Jerry Corley: Just by looking at my face.

829
02:16:21.890 --> 02:16:45.690
Jerry Corley: Good! I like where you're going with this. I was like, with the parents thing, too, it, you know, and I know it's back then versus now, but what would be easier to spell, for the audience? I followed a heroine, H-E-O, H-E-R-O-I-N, but it was like, my, they say laughter is the best medicine. My parents spelled it M-E-T-H.

830
02:16:46.700 --> 02:16:50.350
Pappy: I thought of maybe DOPE, D-O-P-E.

831
02:16:50.350 --> 02:16:50.700
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

832
02:16:50.709 --> 02:16:53.789
Pappy: I get your thinking, yeah.

833
02:16:54.549 --> 02:16:59.999
Jerry Corley: Yeah, so yeah, I like where you're going, I like where you… like, how did your parents view it, that sort of thing?

834
02:17:00.149 --> 02:17:05.299
Jerry Corley: So it's like, so, it's like, one of the… anybody else have one?

835
02:17:06.829 --> 02:17:08.199
Jerry Corley: What do you got, Steve?

836
02:17:12.209 --> 02:17:14.199
Stephen Berger: Laughter is the best medicine.

837
02:17:14.539 --> 02:17:17.009
Stephen Berger: I guess I don't need health insurance anymore.

838
02:17:19.150 --> 02:17:20.530
Stephen Berger: Laughter is meant to…

839
02:17:20.530 --> 02:17:23.790
Jerry Corley: I don't need health insurance, I just turn on Comedy Central.

840
02:17:25.219 --> 02:17:30.139
Stephen Berger: Laughter is the best medicine. Too bad… too bad, big pharma, you suck anyway.

841
02:17:30.690 --> 02:17:31.600
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

842
02:17:32.629 --> 02:17:36.199
Stephen Berger: Laughter is the best medicine. I always thought weed was.

843
02:17:37.330 --> 02:17:38.829
Jerry Corley: That's a good one, yeah.

844
02:17:38.830 --> 02:17:42.590
Stephen Berger: Laughter is the best medicine. Must have been Jerry Corley that wrote that.

845
02:17:46.110 --> 02:17:47.200
Jerry Corley: That's good.

846
02:17:49.040 --> 02:17:49.879
Stephen Berger: That's all.

847
02:17:49.889 --> 02:17:53.599
Jerry Corley: Good, good, nice job. Jack Rain, you're back.

848
02:17:53.600 --> 02:17:56.169
Jack Rain: Laughter is the best medicine.

849
02:17:56.309 --> 02:18:01.420
Jack Rain: Which probably makes sense why people at the pharmacy look pissed off all the time.

850
02:18:01.559 --> 02:18:06.229
Jerry Corley: Oh, good! Yeah! No wonder the people at the pharmacy look pissed off all the time.

851
02:18:06.230 --> 02:18:07.120
Jack Rain: They're all out!

852
02:18:07.320 --> 02:18:12.290
Jerry Corley: Yeah, you don't need, you know, they don't have any laughter. They work at CVS.

853
02:18:13.520 --> 02:18:19.100
Jerry Corley: That's funny. I like the idea, plus the irony that they're working at CBS, but none of them are laughing.

854
02:18:19.980 --> 02:18:27.970
Jerry Corley: You know, so that's, that's really… no, that explains why laughter is the best medicine. That explains why nobody at CVS is ever laughing.

855
02:18:29.290 --> 02:18:38.240
Jerry Corley: Right? That's good. That's a nice interpretation, I like that. So I was just like, they say laughter is the best medicine. In my family growing up, it was morphine.

856
02:18:39.059 --> 02:18:48.190
Jerry Corley: I was gonna say opioids, because I remember… do you remember the cough medicine back then? Does it have codeine in it, for crying out loud.

857
02:18:48.750 --> 02:18:51.480
Jerry Corley: You know? Best cough medicine ever!

858
02:18:55.360 --> 02:18:57.420
Jerry Corley: Yeah, now you… yeah, exactly.

859
02:18:57.420 --> 02:19:00.230
Janet Rapala: To buy it over the counter, all you had to do was sign for it.

860
02:19:00.530 --> 02:19:05.440
Jerry Corley: That's right. Cody, you know, now you gotta, like, now you gotta get a prescription for it.

861
02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:15.460
Jerry Corley: They say laughter is the best medicine. That explains why my insurance won't cover comedy clubs. You know, insurance never covers the best medicine.

862
02:19:16.100 --> 02:19:20.839
Jerry Corley: Right? So, it's like, so instead, I'm listening to Jack Raine, because I'm getting generic.

863
02:19:21.870 --> 02:19:27.440
Jerry Corley: You can say something like that, the best medicine. I'm listening to Jack Brain, does that mean I'm getting the generic?

864
02:19:28.559 --> 02:19:35.409
Jerry Corley: Or somebody, you know, somebody else, you could say somebody who's, like, Who's a mediocre, performer.

865
02:19:36.209 --> 02:19:41.330
Jerry Corley: You know, Adam Sandler? No, you know what I'm saying? Like, who don't you like as a comedian?

866
02:19:41.450 --> 02:19:42.889
Jerry Corley: Pappy, what do you got?

867
02:19:45.490 --> 02:19:48.280
Pappy: I mean, he's spending a lot of time at the doctor.

868
02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:53.769
Pappy: You know, laughter's the best medicine, so I just go in and have him tell me a joke.

869
02:19:56.880 --> 02:20:00.360
Jerry Corley: So, I always feel better when my doctor tells me a joke.

870
02:20:01.440 --> 02:20:04.119
Jerry Corley: And it saves on prescription fees.

871
02:20:04.500 --> 02:20:09.249
Jerry Corley: They say laughter is the best medicine, but if you start with weed, you'll laugh a lot harder.

872
02:20:10.490 --> 02:20:11.370
Jerry Corley: Jack.

873
02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:14.070
Jack Rain: Laughter is the best medicine.

874
02:20:14.320 --> 02:20:20.609
Jack Rain: Which probably means, that Steven Wright OD'd, because I never see him laugh.

875
02:20:21.260 --> 02:20:23.439
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, he does, he chuckles.

876
02:20:24.480 --> 02:20:32.119
Jerry Corley: once in a while to himself, but rarely, rarely, right? So, good. So, okay, so I want to go…

877
02:20:32.570 --> 02:20:42.179
Jerry Corley: Let's see, I want to go… I wanna go to something, like, we can work right away, because it's now getting towards the bottom of the hour. So here…

878
02:20:42.570 --> 02:20:52.490
Jerry Corley: What I've given you is some tools you can work later, like create a vocabulary list of at least 20 words for each industry. So I have medicine and dating.

879
02:20:52.490 --> 02:21:06.190
Jerry Corley: Right? And it's like, but there's also… my doctor said sexually active, staying sexually active is the single best way to say healthy. I said, I totally agree, but my wife will need a court-ordered prescription.

880
02:21:06.850 --> 02:21:16.789
Jerry Corley: So it's a way of saying you're not getting sex, right? So it's like, dating a doctor is difficult. Every time she says, we have chemistry, I wonder if there's a generic version.

881
02:21:17.990 --> 02:21:37.820
Jerry Corley: So it's just, like, putting that just in the context, like, if you're gonna put dating and into, medicine, right, or into a different, like, situation, patient, chemistry, discharge, available, procedure, injection, casual, like, you can put, you know, you can combine two ideas, prescription and date.

882
02:21:37.820 --> 02:21:48.870
Jerry Corley: So that's where I got dating, dating with a, a doctor, right? So, let's go, so there's a, there's definitely something you can work with there,

883
02:21:48.920 --> 02:21:52.900
Jerry Corley: Finding, words that have different…

884
02:21:53.090 --> 02:22:02.409
Jerry Corley: during, like, language-rich industries. For example, advertising has a lot of language, aviation, banking, beauty, construction, corporate management.

885
02:22:02.410 --> 02:22:13.529
Jerry Corley: dating, dentistry, entertainment, food service, all these things have their own languages. You can play around with their words. Now, this one is one I wanted to sort of jump to. It's an easy, fun one.

886
02:22:13.870 --> 02:22:19.900
Jerry Corley: You take initials that already have authority, And redefine them.

887
02:22:20.380 --> 02:22:36.009
Jerry Corley: according to your comic premise, right? Or the context that you create in your mind. So, a new def… and you could probably come up with your own. Here's my examples. Like, the new definition shouldn't be random, it should summarize the attitude or flaw

888
02:22:36.010 --> 02:22:50.440
Jerry Corley: of the context you've established. Meaning, let's keep it at a theme, right? So, example, my gym calls it a HIIT program, High Intensity interval training. At my age, it means hope insurance includes treatment.

889
02:22:51.130 --> 02:23:09.440
Jerry Corley: Or hope, you know, so it's like, it's a way of taking that H-I-IT and reassigning each of those letters to something that would fit what you're trying to say. So, like, the theme at my age kind of provides a through line for that joke, right? So,

890
02:23:10.030 --> 02:23:26.229
Jerry Corley: So, like, process to write these jokes, choose an organization, a system, condition, and industry, identify 5 familiar acronyms. It's best if you, like, narrow it down to an industry, right? And then you can find the acronyms

891
02:23:26.980 --> 02:23:40.280
Jerry Corley: And then you can, you can use, replace the words while preserving the initials. So, like, lots of stuff you can have there, like, when you talk about, when I talk about, like, ailments in medicine.

892
02:23:40.440 --> 02:23:49.280
Jerry Corley: Right? It's like ADD, ADHD, COPD, STD, you know, it's like, we're not even getting diseases anymore, we're just getting acronyms.

893
02:23:49.970 --> 02:24:02.979
Jerry Corley: So you could build something out that way, and then you could do a whole theme on medicine. Here's a lot of those, acronyms used in medicine, and then find out what we can apply them towards, and expand it from there, so…

894
02:24:03.040 --> 02:24:16.569
Jerry Corley: So lots of different stuff in life, IRS, HOA, TSA, DMV, you know. So what do we think about the TSA? What's your point of view about the TSA? Competent, incompetent? What's everybody feel?

895
02:24:20.840 --> 02:24:22.809
Cliff Spenger: Touchy, sneezy, angry.

896
02:24:23.100 --> 02:24:23.710
Jack Rain: You know what?

897
02:24:23.710 --> 02:24:25.140
Jerry Corley: angry, there you go.

898
02:24:25.140 --> 02:24:30.979
Jack Rain: You asked, how do we feel about the TSA? I don't feel anything after they use the glove on me.

899
02:24:31.740 --> 02:24:32.159
Jerry Corley: There you go.

900
02:24:32.950 --> 02:24:41.499
Jerry Corley: Touchy-feely angry. Touchy-feely, touchy, touchy, touchy, touchy, slutty, aggressive.

901
02:24:43.880 --> 02:25:06.839
Jerry Corley: Right, so that could be TSA, DMV, HR, CEO, all of these phrases you can now take some and apply it towards something, you know. And one way to get there is to ask yourself how you feel about the IRS. How do you feel about HOAs? How do you feel about the TSA? How do you feel about the DMV? How do you feel about HR, CEO, MBA, PhDs?

902
02:25:06.840 --> 02:25:19.919
Jerry Corley: Like, PTA, SATs, just choose, like, 3 of those, and find… how do you feel about them, then find ways to substitute words for the… what the, what the acronym stands for. Jack?

903
02:25:20.420 --> 02:25:29.569
Jack Rain: Uncle Louie, who's a monster, he's pretty obese, and I recommended that he join a HIIT program, and he asked.

904
02:25:30.090 --> 02:25:32.110
Jack Rain: Are silencers optional?

905
02:25:32.390 --> 02:25:34.810
Jerry Corley: There you go, nicely done. Yeah.

906
02:25:35.800 --> 02:25:45.130
Jerry Corley: Alright, let's take, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, check out here for about 5, 5-10 minutes, and then I want you to come up with choosing…

907
02:25:45.390 --> 02:25:47.159
Jerry Corley: Either what's on the list.

908
02:25:47.510 --> 02:26:04.380
Jerry Corley: or, one of your own. So you… we've got these categories, you can go in healthcare or pharmaceuticals, you know, you see how many there are there, right? And then there's, like, and there's just a variety of them available to you. Anybody have any questions?

909
02:26:07.890 --> 02:26:12.000
Cliff Spenger: What's artificial about artificial intelligence? I mean, really…

910
02:26:12.000 --> 02:26:18.630
Jerry Corley: What's so artificial about artificial intelligence? How about actual intelligence?

911
02:26:18.630 --> 02:26:20.019
Cliff Spenger: Let's start with that.

912
02:26:20.140 --> 02:26:26.859
Jerry Corley: Hey, I want to use AI, actual intelligence, or be like the Secretary of Education and call it A1.

913
02:26:28.520 --> 02:26:41.479
Jerry Corley: So that could be… that could be a fun one to mess around with. So, let's, take your acronyms and find ways to substitute what their meanings are. You know, I got a DUI, what could that be? You know?

914
02:26:42.510 --> 02:26:51.900
Jerry Corley: Alright, so I will, I'll check out here and give you guys a chance to find some acronyms in a special industry, and see if you can come up with your own substitutions.

915
02:26:52.240 --> 02:26:52.630
Cliff Spenger: You know…

916
02:26:52.860 --> 02:26:54.620
Jerry Corley: Give me a few minutes to work on that.

917
02:29:37.310 --> 02:29:38.450
Cliff Spenger: Your mommy's home.

918
02:29:40.410 --> 02:29:43.250
Cliff Spenger: Your mom's out there. Do you want to go see your mommy?

919
02:29:44.750 --> 02:29:46.060
Cliff Spenger: Your mom's here.

920
02:29:47.940 --> 02:29:50.070
Cliff Spenger: You can stay right here, it's okay.

921
02:29:57.470 --> 02:29:58.170
Cliff Spenger: Beautiful.

922
02:36:05.240 --> 02:36:07.260
Jerry Corley: Let's see what we got.

923
02:36:07.830 --> 02:36:11.800
Jerry Corley: Where are we here? And let's say, doing the acronym workout?

924
02:36:12.480 --> 02:36:14.360
Jerry Corley: What'd you come up with?

925
02:36:14.670 --> 02:36:16.849
Jerry Corley: Start with, anything, Steve?

926
02:36:20.730 --> 02:36:21.380
Cliff Spenger: No, no, I mean…

927
02:36:21.380 --> 02:36:26.310
Stephen Berger: IRS, intrusive reaming service.

928
02:36:26.310 --> 02:36:36.730
Jerry Corley: Yeah, I get a letter from the IRS, as I call them, the internal… what did you say, the…

929
02:36:37.410 --> 02:36:42.789
Jerry Corley: Intrusive reaming service, as I like to call them, the intrusive reaming service.

930
02:36:44.480 --> 02:36:50.229
Stephen Berger: And, TSA… Radical, strict attitudes.

931
02:36:50.870 --> 02:36:51.920
Jerry Corley: There you go.

932
02:36:52.670 --> 02:36:56.279
Jerry Corley: So, let me ask you this. When I said… when I suggested…

933
02:36:56.750 --> 02:37:06.499
Jerry Corley: Tell me how you feel about it, right? When I say, here's the acronym, you know what they really are, tell me how you feel about them. When you understand how you feel about them, it can guide you onto what

934
02:37:06.610 --> 02:37:09.339
Jerry Corley: how to change that acronym. Did that help?

935
02:37:11.090 --> 02:37:13.009
Stephen Berger: Oh, yeah, that's what this is coming from.

936
02:37:13.010 --> 02:37:17.300
Jerry Corley: Okay, good, good, I just wanted to make sure, because it seemed that way. Yeah, good.

937
02:37:17.990 --> 02:37:21.930
Stephen Berger: Yeah, you get a letter from the IRS, and they're out there, they're coming again.

938
02:37:21.930 --> 02:37:28.449
Jerry Corley: Oh, man, that's what you feel like, right? Oh, we're gonna have to… plus interest and penalties and… really? You know?

939
02:37:28.450 --> 02:37:34.859
Stephen Berger: I get my emails, mail, you know, in advance, so I got one sitting in my mailbox right now.

940
02:37:37.870 --> 02:37:42.370
Jerry Corley: Yeah, if you're gonna, if you're gonna, like, if you're gonna ream me that hard, at least use your tongue.

941
02:37:44.310 --> 02:37:46.880
Stephen Berger: DMV, dreadful monthly visit.

942
02:37:47.950 --> 02:37:54.830
Jerry Corley: Nice, there you go. A dreadful monthly visit. You know, you know, it's like, how's your wife? You know…

943
02:37:55.550 --> 02:37:57.410
Jerry Corley: She's at the DMV.

944
02:37:58.070 --> 02:38:14.019
Jerry Corley: Oh, she's like, she's, she's, she's, she's, you know, she's dealing with the DMV, and it's like, what do you mean? Dreadful monthly visit? Meaning, PMSing, or whatever. Nice! I like that, that's good. That was a good one, Steve.

945
02:38:17.510 --> 02:38:18.290
Stephen Berger: That's all.

946
02:38:18.290 --> 02:38:29.790
Jerry Corley: And you could see, like, if you came up with, like, 5 of those, and was… now you're in a conversation, and you did them one after the other, you know, like Tom Cotter might do, and he's somebody you should watch, too, because he puts a lot.

947
02:38:29.790 --> 02:38:30.239
Stephen Berger: A lot of them.

948
02:38:30.240 --> 02:38:32.169
Jerry Corley: In a, in a, in a run.

949
02:38:32.870 --> 02:38:45.550
Jerry Corley: And when he does that, the first one doesn't necessarily work. You know, sometimes he gets an eye roll, but when he puts a bunch of them in a row, that's when he gets the big laughs, and he just keeps it going, he doesn't stop.

950
02:38:45.830 --> 02:38:58.170
Jerry Corley: And that's what… there are a lot of puns, a lot of wordplay, a lot of reverses of the word, and it really works well, because, we see they're silly, they're easy to follow, but because he's doing one after the other.

951
02:38:58.170 --> 02:39:06.119
Jerry Corley: We're just now rolling at the, at the, at the feet of fitting so many together in a, in a, you know.

952
02:39:06.130 --> 02:39:07.320
Jerry Corley: And a story.

953
02:39:08.510 --> 02:39:11.179
Jerry Corley: I think that's what, if you did that, you would, like…

954
02:39:11.340 --> 02:39:15.110
Jerry Corley: really rehearse it so you polish it, I think that'd be a lot of fun to do.

955
02:39:15.460 --> 02:39:17.509
Jerry Corley: Cliff, you got your hand up.

956
02:39:17.710 --> 02:39:18.440
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

957
02:39:18.660 --> 02:39:26.730
Cliff Spenger: So we got this missive from our CEO, which means cap everyone's opportunities.

958
02:39:27.140 --> 02:39:35.699
Cliff Spenger: And so I came home to forget about it, started watching some basketball, you know, the NBA, men balancing their alimonies.

959
02:39:36.450 --> 02:39:38.240
Jerry Corley: Oh…

960
02:39:38.240 --> 02:39:44.249
Cliff Spenger: And then my wife called me and said, we gotta go to the PTA. You know, they're poised to annihilate.

961
02:39:46.290 --> 02:39:47.430
Jerry Corley: Illinois.

962
02:39:47.430 --> 02:39:56.199
Cliff Spenger: Yeah, well, I've got to re… go back a little bit. I… I didn't take my SATs, but I slept with Sally, Alice, and Tracy.

963
02:39:58.670 --> 02:40:04.160
Cliff Spenger: And, I… whenever I drive, I take the GPS. That means you can get pretty sloshed.

964
02:40:04.700 --> 02:40:06.750
Jerry Corley: Oh, nice. Yeah, that's good.

965
02:40:07.900 --> 02:40:13.800
Jerry Corley: Well done, Cliff That's it. One after, that's really good, because you put a bunch of them together. You see when you put them together?

966
02:40:13.800 --> 02:40:18.229
Cliff Spenger: I told them a bit of a story there, but I didn't say the order right. But, yeah.

967
02:40:18.230 --> 02:40:27.649
Jerry Corley: Still very good. I like the way, like, hearing them back-to-back-to-back really changes the name of the game, and it's like, really enjoyed that. That was fun.

968
02:40:27.920 --> 02:40:33.300
Cliff Spenger: It's not hard to do. I don't know how many you would want to do, though. How many would you want to go through when they're just…

969
02:40:33.300 --> 02:40:37.320
Jerry Corley: I would… what I would do is I would push it to the limit.

970
02:40:37.320 --> 02:40:38.430
Cliff Spenger: And see what the…

971
02:40:38.430 --> 02:40:40.250
Jerry Corley: Audience bails on you.

972
02:40:40.250 --> 02:40:40.580
Cliff Spenger: Right.

973
02:40:40.580 --> 02:40:47.819
Jerry Corley: And then dial it back a little bit. Sometimes, like, you know, I used to do this run on Mormon jokes, right? And,

974
02:40:47.820 --> 02:41:12.810
Jerry Corley: And they were playful, they were not mean, but you could tell when the audience, depending on where I was, like Salt Lake City, they would get a kick out of it. If I was, somewhere else… sometimes, though, in Salt Lake, when I'd do the run on the Mormon jokes, and they were in fun, because I had these Mormon neighbors that were the sweetest people in the world. So it was like, and we live right down the street from the LDS church, and they always drop by, and they're very playful.

975
02:41:12.810 --> 02:41:23.559
Jerry Corley: nice people, so I don't… I don't, you know, I don't hit them hard, but I just make fun a little bit. And, but after a while, you can see they're like, okay, okay, we're getting a little…

976
02:41:23.560 --> 02:41:40.620
Jerry Corley: getting a little uncomfortable, right? And I'll even say that to them. I go, you guys getting a little uncomfortable now? Did I go too much? And then they laugh at that, and you let it go, right? And then, because that's just the way humans behave. So they give you that permission. I remember one time I was doing a show for…

977
02:41:40.620 --> 02:41:42.680
Jerry Corley: I think it was the 3M Company.

978
02:41:42.680 --> 02:42:04.049
Jerry Corley: And it was in Salt Lake. It was a corporate event, and I started with some Mormon jokes, because Salt Lake is, like, one of the big capitals of the Mormon population. And so I started to make some jokes about that, and somebody just walked a note up to me, handed it to me, and I looked at it. He was shaking when he handed it to me, so that was kind of funny, right?

979
02:42:04.050 --> 02:42:06.590
Jerry Corley: Look at the note, it says… you wanna know what the note says?

980
02:42:06.980 --> 02:42:09.429
Jerry Corley: 80% of this crowd is Mormon.

981
02:42:09.900 --> 02:42:21.599
Jerry Corley: well, there goes that material, right? And they all laughed at that, and I just went on to family materials. So they were like, they applauded that, you know, and they were like, wow, the way you dug yourself out of that hole…

982
02:42:21.770 --> 02:42:29.470
Jerry Corley: You know, and if you think of it, if you think you're in a hole, you're in a hole, but if you think we're just people that, you know, well, I misread this audience.

983
02:42:30.700 --> 02:42:37.009
Jerry Corley: And then they just laughed at it, so you can always do that when things happen, you know. Alright, Pappy, what do you got?

984
02:42:37.380 --> 02:42:40.549
Cliff Spenger: People like it when you screw up. They like it when you screw up.

985
02:42:40.550 --> 02:42:42.250
Jerry Corley: It makes them feel superior.

986
02:42:43.550 --> 02:42:46.529
Pappy: IRS, I'm running scared.

987
02:42:48.910 --> 02:42:52.039
Pappy: HOA, Homeowners Antichrist.

988
02:42:52.450 --> 02:42:57.570
Jerry Corley: There you go. Oh, I like that one a lot, because most people who do have an HOA feel that way.

989
02:42:57.570 --> 02:43:05.049
Pappy: Yeah, TSA. I had 5 ounces of perfume, I call them, throw shit away.

990
02:43:07.720 --> 02:43:10.969
Pappy: Let's see, when… oh,

991
02:43:11.180 --> 02:43:19.279
Pappy: A lot of old geezers like me hate AI, and it's only going to get worse. Somebody, please stop arthritic inflammation.

992
02:43:19.280 --> 02:43:22.230
Jerry Corley: Good one.

993
02:43:23.200 --> 02:43:24.030
Pappy: That's it.

994
02:43:24.030 --> 02:43:31.970
Jerry Corley: Nice, well done! Well, you know, or as I like to call it, arthritic inflammation. I tell you what, this AI is giving me arthritic inflammation.

995
02:43:33.000 --> 02:43:39.700
Jerry Corley: Well done, I like that. And I like the angle of, old geezers like me don't like AI.

996
02:43:39.860 --> 02:43:50.330
Jerry Corley: Right? Certainly, I would love to hear that angle about, why, you know, and I'm thinking about maybe there's something there with,

997
02:43:50.520 --> 02:43:51.660
Jerry Corley: Trust…

998
02:43:52.550 --> 02:44:03.839
Jerry Corley: Right? It's like… because I know as I'm… I certainly think about it now, I don't think I'm old, but I'm 63. So it's like, I don't like AI, you know, but my kids don't like AI.

999
02:44:03.930 --> 02:44:18.079
Jerry Corley: You know? And it's like, the more I mess around with AI as a writer to teach about it, the more I see the mistakes it makes, and so the more I also realize it offloads your cognitive thought, and then you get weaker.

1000
02:44:18.080 --> 02:44:24.910
Jerry Corley: and your spontaneity goes. It's great for research, you know, and the bottom line is, like I say to writers.

1001
02:44:25.090 --> 02:44:27.270
Jerry Corley: You know when you're cheating at Solitaire.

1002
02:44:28.440 --> 02:44:42.569
Jerry Corley: And save your brain. The more you work your brain, the better it is. The more you offload it, the more you're gonna see that. It's the same thing as numbers. How many phone numbers do you memorize these days? None, because they're all in there.

1003
02:44:42.800 --> 02:44:48.570
Jerry Corley: Right? You have one number, my lawyer, right? I don't even know my own number.

1004
02:44:48.900 --> 02:44:50.359
Jerry Corley: Right? So it's like…

1005
02:44:51.540 --> 02:44:58.070
Jerry Corley: So, I think that would be a fun little angle to see where your point of view is on that, because it's such a…

1006
02:44:58.240 --> 02:45:00.150
Jerry Corley: trending topic.

1007
02:45:00.450 --> 02:45:03.769
Jerry Corley: And here, like, at my age, sort of thing…

1008
02:45:04.010 --> 02:45:11.700
Pappy: But I… could I try to tie myself to younger people because they also don't trust it?

1009
02:45:11.700 --> 02:45:17.170
Jerry Corley: Sure, that's… hey, that's something I have in common with a neighbor's daughter. She hates AI, too.

1010
02:45:17.300 --> 02:45:19.820
Jerry Corley: You know? And now it's like, she was always…

1011
02:45:19.820 --> 02:45:23.229
Pappy: For her, it's artificial intelligence. For me, it's R3.

1012
02:45:23.230 --> 02:45:27.219
Jerry Corley: It's ridic Yeah, that's funny. I like it. That's good.

1013
02:45:27.480 --> 02:45:30.470
Jerry Corley: Kaz, you have your hand up.

1014
02:45:34.160 --> 02:45:40.649
Kaz Okamoto: Oh, sorry, I gotta do a topic for Pappy. So, when the neighbor's daughter and I have sex, we don't talk about AI.

1015
02:45:40.650 --> 02:45:43.020
Jerry Corley: Okay.

1016
02:45:43.020 --> 02:45:46.879
Kaz Okamoto: Sorry, Pappy, just… Making you youthful.

1017
02:45:47.220 --> 02:45:48.220
Kaz Okamoto: Aye, hi, Ed!

1018
02:45:48.220 --> 02:45:49.760
Jerry Corley: Probably this one.

1019
02:45:50.040 --> 02:45:53.710
Kaz Okamoto: HOA! Highly Overrated Authority.

1020
02:45:53.940 --> 02:45:56.080
Jerry Corley: That works, yeah, that's a good one.

1021
02:45:56.890 --> 02:45:57.990
Kaz Okamoto: You say.

1022
02:45:57.990 --> 02:46:06.220
Jerry Corley: My daughter lives in a complex, you know, a residential complex. She's dealing with HOA, or as I like to call them, highly overrated authorities.

1023
02:46:06.940 --> 02:46:09.019
Kaz Okamoto: Which they are.

1024
02:46:09.250 --> 02:46:11.770
Kaz Okamoto: Horrible ownership access.

1025
02:46:11.770 --> 02:46:12.730
Jerry Corley: Mmm!

1026
02:46:14.490 --> 02:46:19.730
Kaz Okamoto: I have one good thing about any HOA ever. Me neither. Ever, ever.

1027
02:46:19.970 --> 02:46:26.859
Kaz Okamoto: The other one… Tsa, Tiring Substitute Authority.

1028
02:46:31.510 --> 02:46:33.980
Kaz Okamoto: Crickets? Okay, the next one I have…

1029
02:46:33.980 --> 02:46:36.949
Jerry Corley: Ranical Substitute Authority.

1030
02:46:37.170 --> 02:46:43.370
Jerry Corley: Because it, like, when… right after 9-11, right, they started… they got this whole TSA thing going on.

1031
02:46:43.430 --> 02:46:59.920
Jerry Corley: And it was… it's like they were a substitute, and they were like, they were not, they weren't customer service oriented. Like, all the other people that used to help with that, that, you know, the security checks at the airport were customer service oriented. TSA was…

1032
02:47:00.300 --> 02:47:08.719
Jerry Corley: law enforcement, enforcement, sort of, like, focused. And they were like, you know, and you could see how it affected their whole personalities.

1033
02:47:11.420 --> 02:47:16.239
Kaz Okamoto: The next one I have for… thanks. The next one I have for that is Trump shaming Americans.

1034
02:47:18.930 --> 02:47:22.349
Jerry Corley: Dealing with the TSA lately, you know, Trump-shaming Americans.

1035
02:47:22.790 --> 02:47:24.119
Jerry Corley: Yeah. That's good.

1036
02:47:24.120 --> 02:47:31.840
Kaz Okamoto: And then I did DMV. This one's kind of weird. Dads, moms, and victims.

1037
02:47:35.370 --> 02:47:36.630
Jerry Corley: Ann's mom's on victim footage.

1038
02:47:36.630 --> 02:47:45.230
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, whatever. It was the first one I did? And then the second one I did for that was, Damn Motherfucking Vampires.

1039
02:47:47.070 --> 02:47:52.879
Jerry Corley: That's a good one. So if you, like, like, if you ask yourself, how do I feel about the DMV?

1040
02:47:52.910 --> 02:48:07.759
Jerry Corley: then you might be able to come up with some more stuff, like, damn motherfucking vampires. Or as I like to call them, damn motherfucking vampires. Meaning, you know, you go there, you always feel like they're sucking your blood. What do you mean you need a fee for this, and a fee for this, and a fee for this?

1041
02:48:08.330 --> 02:48:11.769
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, that's why I go to AAA to do DMV stuff.

1042
02:48:11.770 --> 02:48:12.090
Jerry Corley: Good.

1043
02:48:12.090 --> 02:48:12.710
Kaz Okamoto: That works.

1044
02:48:12.970 --> 02:48:14.910
Jerry Corley: Nicely done. Janet, what do you got?

1045
02:48:20.940 --> 02:48:21.940
Janet Rapala: There we go.

1046
02:48:22.060 --> 02:48:28.220
Janet Rapala: Okay, for, IRS, I have internal rakeover Service.

1047
02:48:29.430 --> 02:48:32.750
Janet Rapala: Homeowners Association of Hot Over Anything.

1048
02:48:32.900 --> 02:48:33.660
Jerry Corley: Yes!

1049
02:48:33.840 --> 02:48:45.059
Janet Rapala: We have an NBA team in Indianapolis called the Colts, and for a while, it was… it stood for Count on Losing This Sunday, and they lived up to their rep last weekend.

1050
02:48:45.300 --> 02:48:46.800
Jerry Corley: It's like the Jets.

1051
02:48:47.080 --> 02:48:51.290
Janet Rapala: And then for BMI, I have, Big Meat Inside.

1052
02:48:51.680 --> 02:48:56.829
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, that's good. Big meat inside, it's stuck. Like,

1053
02:48:56.990 --> 02:48:59.249
Jerry Corley: It's good. Lina, what do you got?

1054
02:49:00.310 --> 02:49:03.650
lina alva: Yeah, so… let me tell you guys, I have HIV.

1055
02:49:04.240 --> 02:49:10.000
lina alva: I honestly am vesuvius, because when I see you, I…

1056
02:49:10.450 --> 02:49:16.419
lina alva: just get made up of volcanic ash, and I just erupt.

1057
02:49:18.430 --> 02:49:30.599
Jerry Corley: Okay, that's good, that's good. It was, like, a little… a little… a little verbose, but not bad, that's good. It's like, if you're not used to doing the drill, then it's like…

1058
02:49:30.600 --> 02:49:31.730
lina alva: You need to build them, huh?

1059
02:49:31.730 --> 02:49:32.920
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1060
02:49:32.920 --> 02:49:55.649
Jerry Corley: I think there's, I think there's, you're on the right track. It's like learning to… because, I mean, it can come up at any time. Anytime you hear, as you're talking, you know, doing the joke, or you're talking about the news headline, or you're talking about a trending activity, a lot of times the acronyms show up. Anytime you see an acronym, you know you have a tool.

1061
02:49:55.950 --> 02:50:12.289
Jerry Corley: to reinterpret it, and give you a joke out of it, so you know that's one of those tools you have in your hip pocket, where a lot of people that are new will just, like, say, I was at the DMV today, and just leave it like that. And then you go in there, and you go, this is a… this is… I'm not gonna leave this alone. DMV is another chance for me to play that acronym.

1062
02:50:14.550 --> 02:50:15.300
lina alva: Okay.

1063
02:50:15.300 --> 02:50:16.369
Jerry Corley: Good, good, good.

1064
02:50:16.490 --> 02:50:18.840
Jerry Corley: But that was good. It was like, that's the step, right?

1065
02:50:18.840 --> 02:50:21.170
lina alva: Like, I had… I had a good concept, I just didn't.

1066
02:50:21.170 --> 02:50:29.560
Jerry Corley: Absolutely good concept, yes, and it had an angle, it was just a little bit too much to track, you know, too much to follow and decipher, you know.

1067
02:50:29.900 --> 02:50:31.969
Jerry Corley: I was listening. Say it again.

1068
02:50:32.830 --> 02:50:36.370
lina alva: I have HIV. I'm honestly in…

1069
02:50:36.950 --> 02:50:42.129
lina alva: Vesuvius… no, yeah, I… yeah, maybe that's a little… maybe I need to just break it.

1070
02:50:42.620 --> 02:50:43.610
lina alva: Down.

1071
02:50:44.350 --> 02:50:48.350
lina alva: In a way that… It's not too much, because…

1072
02:50:48.850 --> 02:51:05.299
lina alva: But everybody knows what Vesuvius is, right? A volcano in Italy. So, I have HIV, I'm honestly in Vesuvius. When I see you, I want to erupt. I'm made up of volcanic ash, like, you know what I'm saying? But I want to, like, look it up to make it funny, you know, like, make it very…

1073
02:51:06.750 --> 02:51:08.959
lina alva: I like to think you know what I'm saying.

1074
02:51:08.960 --> 02:51:10.349
Jerry Corley: Yes, I do.

1075
02:51:11.260 --> 02:51:18.780
Jerry Corley: And I like the context, where your clarifier at the end is really what saved it, you know? When I see you, I want to erupt.

1076
02:51:19.760 --> 02:51:21.050
lina alva: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like…

1077
02:51:21.050 --> 02:51:21.580
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

1078
02:51:22.280 --> 02:51:26.039
lina alva: Alright, maybe that was… that was bad, but whatever. I tried.

1079
02:51:26.040 --> 02:51:34.450
Jerry Corley: It was good, but it was good. So it was like, when you said, honestly, I was trying to tie… oh, it snuck in on me, as an H.

1080
02:51:35.690 --> 02:51:46.860
Jerry Corley: You know what I'm saying? Because I know it's there, but if for some reason it snuck in, I couldn't see it right away. Just… and that's just me. But I like the… I love the clarifier, because once you said Vesuvius.

1081
02:51:46.980 --> 02:51:55.040
Jerry Corley: every time I see you, I want to erupt, that would make the… that connection would make the chuckle, at least, right there. Yeah. So I think, good.

1082
02:51:55.210 --> 02:51:55.870
lina alva: Alright.

1083
02:51:55.870 --> 02:52:00.589
Jerry Corley: Pappy, what do you got?

1084
02:52:01.520 --> 02:52:03.299
Pappy: I was just gonna add to it.

1085
02:52:03.610 --> 02:52:12.929
Pappy: if you, instead of volcano, and you use Vesuvius, maybe, whatever, I forget, hilarious in Vesuvius,

1086
02:52:13.070 --> 02:52:16.070
Pappy: I get wet when I see an Italian guy.

1087
02:52:19.650 --> 02:52:21.889
lina alva: Yeah, from tears running down my cheek.

1088
02:52:25.660 --> 02:52:27.920
Jerry Corley: That's good. What else you got, Pappy?

1089
02:52:29.200 --> 02:52:30.890
Jerry Corley: No, that's it, that's it.

1090
02:52:30.890 --> 02:52:55.700
Jerry Corley: So, and there's, there's tons more in the wordplay. There's just, like, it's like, for the class, I had to narrow it down to something, right, for us to cover. But there's just so much with regard to wordplay. I mean, there's so much available, just as we, you know, we were just talking about the, you know, chiasmus, using the reframing of the words, and, slanted rhymes, paraprozdokians, alliterated.

1091
02:52:56.490 --> 02:53:02.799
Jerry Corley: I'm looking again at that Evernote of mine. You know, I used to be in decisive

1092
02:53:02.860 --> 02:53:04.630
Jerry Corley: But now I'm not so sure.

1093
02:53:06.080 --> 02:53:16.329
Jerry Corley: You know, that sort of thing is like using those… using your tech… your just literary devices that are available to you. I think that's a lot of fun, too.

1094
02:53:17.080 --> 02:53:18.490
Jerry Corley: So,

1095
02:53:18.710 --> 02:53:24.349
Jerry Corley: Let me, let's see, what was the, ending thing I had there on the document for us?

1096
02:53:28.880 --> 02:53:31.550
Jerry Corley: So once we go through that, there was,

1097
02:53:31.680 --> 02:53:43.769
Jerry Corley: So I had, like, like, TSA Traveling Sands at Autonomy. Delta doesn't ever leave the airport, VIP, very irritated passenger.

1098
02:53:45.590 --> 02:54:02.350
Jerry Corley: So it's like… and there's like, here's what you'll get in the PDF. 100 words with double Entendre potential. You can spend the entire week working these. There's 1 through 25, 26 through 50, 51 through 75, 76 through 100,

1099
02:54:02.760 --> 02:54:10.000
Jerry Corley: I remember I saw a, an English teacher lay out a chart like this. I was like, what are those numbers at the top?

1100
02:54:10.000 --> 02:54:27.880
Jerry Corley: Oh, they wanted to fit in on just a couple of pages. So, there's a hundred words right there, turnover, you can see what you can… already the possibilities with turnover, Apple turnover, turnover in employment, turnover your money, turnover in bed.

1101
02:54:28.110 --> 02:54:40.930
Jerry Corley: So there's, like, a lot of different words there. Erection, engagement, knocked up. Anyway, so, questions to ask every word, you can go play around with those words. 50 phrases for the inflection exercise.

1102
02:54:41.400 --> 02:54:55.879
Jerry Corley: So, aphorisms and advice, right? Laughter is the best medicine, honesty is the best policy, practice makes perfect, time heals all wounds, knowledge is power. So there's, like, lots of stuff to work with, idioms and familiar expressions.

1103
02:54:56.050 --> 02:55:05.559
Jerry Corley: So, you'll have no end to the stuff you can play with. Literal… additional wordplay devices, literal interpretation, treat a figurative phrase.

1104
02:55:06.120 --> 02:55:13.280
Jerry Corley: as a physical instruction, my therapist told me to embrace my mistakes, so I called my ex-wife.

1105
02:55:13.480 --> 02:55:21.529
Jerry Corley: I'll allow the setup to suggest one definition, reveal another. I finally found a position with benefits. Unfortunately, she's married.

1106
02:55:21.660 --> 02:55:28.589
Jerry Corley: So, it's like, they say money can't buy happiness, but poverty isn't exactly killing it on Yelp.

1107
02:55:28.780 --> 02:55:47.340
Jerry Corley: So that, that's another way to look at a saying. So I just want to give you those, like malapropisms, homophones, there's lots of things to mess around with here that I put on this page. You can lead a horse to water, but apparently you can't make them validate parking.

1108
02:55:47.630 --> 02:55:55.620
Jerry Corley: So, and that's just one of those things. I remember doing a comedy club, I think it was the comedy store, and they didn't validate parking.

1109
02:55:56.150 --> 02:56:10.229
Jerry Corley: And so I went up, you know, when I was up on stage, I just used, used a, basically a cliche reformation. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them validate parking. So it's like, just like,

1110
02:56:10.730 --> 02:56:15.740
Jerry Corley: So, there's lots of tools to work with, and you'll learn some new terms as well.

1111
02:56:16.040 --> 02:56:20.930
Kaz Okamoto: What's Zoo… what? Zumba? Zoom. Z-E-U…

1112
02:56:20.930 --> 02:56:21.910
Jerry Corley: Zoigma.

1113
02:56:22.270 --> 02:56:32.530
Jerry Corley: Use one verb with two objects, but make the verb mean something different with each object. She stole my heart, my wallet, and approximately 3 years.

1114
02:56:33.930 --> 02:56:45.159
Jerry Corley: Now, this is a common thing you'll see, in a three-way build-up in, in phrases like this. It's old school. Like, like, she stole my heart, my wallet, and approximately 3 years of my life.

1115
02:56:45.540 --> 02:56:53.580
Jerry Corley: So that type of thing. So that's… that's… that's what they call it. I had to look that up, like, what do they call this? I know there's a word for it. It's ZoomMA.

1116
02:56:53.770 --> 02:56:54.680
Jerry Corley: So…

1117
02:56:55.640 --> 02:57:13.710
Jerry Corley: So you'll learn that, so like I said, you're gonna learn some new things. That's why I like to… is I… well, like, how do I… what's the literary device? What's that called? And so that… I like to assign labels to each one of these techniques. It's something Carlin told me to do, and then you can come back and repeat them.

1118
02:57:14.100 --> 02:57:26.989
Jerry Corley: So anyway, there's something for you to work on, that'll be a lot, it's just a lot of fun, you'll have a great time with it. And plus, it'll be on the, web, landing page on the web with the comments section, you can play around with it, and…

1119
02:57:27.160 --> 02:57:28.759
Jerry Corley: You know, leave comments.

1120
02:57:29.610 --> 02:57:38.299
Jerry Corley: So, lots of different stuff to work on. Last week for Christmas, my parents came down for a visit, because I keep them in the attic.

1121
02:57:39.150 --> 02:57:40.360
Jerry Corley: So…

1122
02:57:41.130 --> 02:57:47.499
Jerry Corley: literal interpretation. I was gonna go through a few of those. But anyway, that's the… you have plenty of things to work on.

1123
02:57:49.270 --> 02:57:51.449
Kaz Okamoto: Can you go back to number 6, please?

1124
02:57:51.450 --> 02:57:52.320
Jerry Corley: Yes, ma'am.

1125
02:57:57.140 --> 02:57:58.550
Jerry Corley: Misheard language?

1126
02:57:58.550 --> 02:57:59.950
Kaz Okamoto: Yes. So…

1127
02:58:00.490 --> 02:58:01.320
Jerry Corley: Yes.

1128
02:58:01.640 --> 02:58:03.199
Kaz Okamoto: No, I just,

1129
02:58:03.790 --> 02:58:12.749
Kaz Okamoto: Because I want to tell you, as I've gotten older, I don't hear the same word that's coming out of someone's mouth that goes into my ear.

1130
02:58:12.850 --> 02:58:23.159
Kaz Okamoto: And it creates a lot of, funny, you know what I mean? So, how do you do that if you're trying to do it on purpose?

1131
02:58:23.960 --> 02:58:25.440
Jerry Corley: Well, for example.

1132
02:58:25.440 --> 02:58:27.460
Cliff Spenger: Turn off your hearing aids.

1133
02:58:27.460 --> 02:58:30.360
Jerry Corley: For example…

1134
02:58:30.360 --> 02:58:31.610
Kaz Okamoto: What did you say?

1135
02:58:31.610 --> 02:58:32.690
Jerry Corley: Off your hearing aids.

1136
02:58:32.690 --> 02:58:33.920
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, thanks, okay.

1137
02:58:34.090 --> 02:58:35.660
Kaz Okamoto: It was a joke.

1138
02:58:36.380 --> 02:58:51.100
Jerry Corley: So, you hear, like, like, for example, misheard language, like, you have something, when people say something, you hear a different thing coming into your ears, right? Like, if somebody says, you know, it's like, you have arthritis, it runs in the genes.

1139
02:58:52.160 --> 02:58:55.930
Jerry Corley: You know? And you're like, oh, maybe you should stop shopping at the Gap.

1140
02:58:57.530 --> 02:59:01.749
Kaz Okamoto: So is that kind of the same as, what Norm Crosby used to do?

1141
02:59:01.750 --> 02:59:15.870
Jerry Corley: Yes, yeah, malapropisms, without a doubt, yeah. Or deliberately, deliberately mishearing lyrics, like we did with, Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire.

1142
02:59:15.870 --> 02:59:22.760
Jerry Corley: Isn't that what he's saying with that song? So you're deliberately mishearing

1143
02:59:22.760 --> 02:59:33.620
Jerry Corley: lyrics, instructions, terminology. That's the same thing as, like, even in the Bible, they got stoned to death. I'm deliberately mishearing the definition of what their intended meaning is.

1144
02:59:37.420 --> 02:59:39.809
Kaz Okamoto: The same way in mishearing,

1145
02:59:40.620 --> 02:59:43.280
Kaz Okamoto: The lyrics to songs when we were younger?

1146
02:59:43.750 --> 02:59:44.440
Jerry Corley: Yes.

1147
02:59:44.620 --> 02:59:45.410
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

1148
02:59:46.780 --> 02:59:47.270
Kaz Okamoto: Okay.

1149
02:59:47.270 --> 02:59:48.800
Jerry Corley: Revbed up like a douche?

1150
02:59:49.120 --> 02:59:57.339
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, that's… well, I was wrapped up like a douche, and someone said, it's revved up like a deuce, and I went, what the fuck does that mean, you know?

1151
02:59:57.340 --> 02:59:58.829
Jerry Corley: Deuce… Deuce Coop.

1152
02:59:59.010 --> 02:59:59.790
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

1153
03:00:00.370 --> 03:00:06.760
Kaz Okamoto: I got it after she explained it to me from screaming at me, because I kept saying, no, it's not, it's revved…

1154
03:00:06.760 --> 03:00:09.010
Jerry Corley: Wrapped up like a douche.

1155
03:00:09.540 --> 03:00:21.079
Jerry Corley: So there's lots of fun you could have with wordplay. I mean, it's like, it's probably the most flexible technique in comedy, so it's just one of those things. Pappy, you have your hand up.

1156
03:00:22.270 --> 03:00:37.519
Pappy: I'm totally with Kaz on that. I hear so many things in funny ways. A while ago, I was playing pickleball. We were just about ready to start. My partner turns and starts walking away, and he says, give me a minute, I gotta jack off.

1157
03:00:37.720 --> 03:00:40.550
Jerry Corley: Shit.

1158
03:00:40.550 --> 03:00:45.000
Pappy: And it wasn't until he actually started doing it, he said, I gotta take my jacket off.

1159
03:00:45.000 --> 03:00:51.300
Jerry Corley: Oh, wow, that's good. You gotta collect those. Those are… those are gold right there.

1160
03:00:52.380 --> 03:01:03.780
Jerry Corley: So we often mishear things, and often people make a mistake, you know, when they say certain things. They miss… they misuse words, and sometimes it makes an entirely different sentence.

1161
03:01:03.880 --> 03:01:18.960
Jerry Corley: You know, so it's like, so it's, you know, it gives her a lot of fun, because we get to make fun of the fact, and you get to self-deprecate, because I miss… I thought it, you know, I had to jack off. I was like, I was like, it wasn't until…

1162
03:01:19.090 --> 03:01:28.410
Jerry Corley: He started doing it where I understood he just had to take his jacket off. That makes total sense, because you could see somebody might say something as they're turning away from you.

1163
03:01:29.050 --> 03:01:35.119
Jerry Corley: And the words change, because it's no longer directed toward

1164
03:01:35.370 --> 03:01:40.280
Jerry Corley: direction is, you know, the word breaks up, so it's like, just acoustics sometimes.

1165
03:01:41.020 --> 03:01:45.579
Jerry Corley: Anybody have any questions about this before we leave for today?

1166
03:01:46.660 --> 03:01:48.649
Jerry Corley: I think everybody's good.

1167
03:01:48.650 --> 03:01:49.600
Kaz Okamoto: Thank you.

1168
03:01:49.970 --> 03:01:51.600
Kaz Okamoto: a class next Monday?

1169
03:01:51.600 --> 03:01:55.020
Jerry Corley: No, I am, I am in Vegas next Monday.

1170
03:01:55.680 --> 03:01:58.250
Cliff Spenger: Great, I'm working. Me too! So what?

1171
03:02:00.100 --> 03:02:04.480
Jerry Corley: We'll see you the following week, which I think the next class is on the 28th.

1172
03:02:04.480 --> 03:02:06.900
Stephen Berger: What are you doing in Vegas, Jerry?

1173
03:02:06.900 --> 03:02:08.640
Jerry Corley: Or a World Series of Comedy.

1174
03:02:08.640 --> 03:02:09.479
lina alva: Are you having a good time?

1175
03:02:10.360 --> 03:02:12.630
Jerry Corley: It's at the… at the Strat.

1176
03:02:12.830 --> 03:02:13.799
lina alva: Are you having a class?

1177
03:02:13.800 --> 03:02:15.570
Jerry Corley: They do it at the finest hotels.

1178
03:02:16.210 --> 03:02:17.679
Stephen Berger: Am I able to come?

1179
03:02:17.680 --> 03:02:20.060
Jerry Corley: Yeah, come, come, come by, check it out.

1180
03:02:20.420 --> 03:02:24.279
Stephen Berger: When is the, actual show? Is it in the nighttime?

1181
03:02:24.280 --> 03:02:28.520
Jerry Corley: Shows are all day long, on Sunday.

1182
03:02:28.760 --> 03:02:32.950
Jerry Corley: all the way to Saturday. So, and they're in the afternoon.

1183
03:02:33.220 --> 03:02:34.040
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

1184
03:02:34.040 --> 03:02:35.370
Stephen Berger: And you're going on?

1185
03:02:35.500 --> 03:02:37.359
Kaz Okamoto: 4, 6, 8, I am.

1186
03:02:37.360 --> 03:02:40.840
Jerry Corley: Tuesday night, I think I do the midnight show. Let me double check.

1187
03:02:41.100 --> 03:02:44.440
Kaz Okamoto: I thought it was Wednesday. I got… I'm doing 29th.

1188
03:02:44.440 --> 03:02:45.530
Stephen Berger: midnight?

1189
03:02:46.150 --> 03:02:46.550
Kaz Okamoto: Mmm.

1190
03:02:46.550 --> 03:03:05.510
Jerry Corley: Yeah, doing the midnight show. Well, I love to do the midnight show, because it's like, basically the, what happens is you've got 101 people that make the main event, and then there's a whole bunch of other comedians that didn't make the main event, but they get to participate in the midnight shows.

1191
03:03:05.750 --> 03:03:18.109
Jerry Corley: I've been doing the midnight show since the on… since the day, you know, since World Series of Comedy was around, since they started. And I used to do… they were like, if… they used to give me the instruction

1192
03:03:18.830 --> 03:03:27.589
Jerry Corley: as long as you can keep an audience here, you can… you can keep it going. So, the… my record was, till 3 AM.

1193
03:03:29.030 --> 03:03:44.380
Jerry Corley: So, but, that was way back in the day. Now we, now we cut it a little shorter. But, because there's more comics involved, and so the schedule's busier. I am, doing the midnight show… when am I doing the midnight show?

1194
03:03:44.380 --> 03:03:45.270
Kaz Okamoto: Wednesday.

1195
03:03:45.430 --> 03:03:48.590
Jerry Corley: Wednesday. Wednesday, Wednesday night, midnight show.

1196
03:03:48.810 --> 03:03:51.620
Stephen Berger: Or do you get to see an itinerary somewhere?

1197
03:03:51.790 --> 03:03:56.340
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's online at worldseriesOfComedy.com.

1198
03:03:56.340 --> 03:03:56.850
Stephen Berger: Okay.

1199
03:03:56.850 --> 03:03:57.620
Jerry Corley: main event.

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lina alva: Dairy!

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Jerry Corley: Yes.

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lina alva: When is it? On Monday? Because I think I… I can be there, because I… every time you're there, I hit up my friend, and I just show up, so…

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Jerry Corley: Awesome!

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lina alva: If you want me to be there, where…

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, you're welcome to be there, sure.

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lina alva: Let me know.

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Jerry Corley: It'd be fun having you there.

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lina alva: Oh, I, I, you know, I love going to see Stoney, like, you know, you know I love that.

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Jerry Corley: Right, right.

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lina alva: Yeah, so I…

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Jerry Corley: Lots of, lots of different comics. So yeah, so that's gonna be the World Series of Comedy. It's a fun event. You get to see a whole bunch of comics get up there, and they're each doing, like, 5 minutes during the week. As it gets towards the end of the week, they, are doing… as they narrow it down to, like, the semifinals, I think they do 10 minutes each, and in the finals, they do 20 minutes each. So, and then there's 3 comics at the end, doing 20 minutes each, I think.

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Jerry Corley: And then, then there's a winner. So there's a first, second, and third place winner. So it's,

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Jerry Corley: And, you know.

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Jerry Corley: everyone… lots of people who are there get work, because they get exposure to a lot of the talent coordinators who are there. That might like a style, might like the fact that you're female, or might like the fact that you bring a, you know, a different, like, cultural, impression to the stage, because, you know, most of them are booking average white guys, right? So, because that makes up the majority of all comics.

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Jerry Corley: But if they can find somebody who's a little bit different.

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Jerry Corley: They get excited, because that can add a little variety to their… to their, to their bill, what they have on.

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Kaz Okamoto: They're doing classes, and seminars, and meet and greets, and…

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Kaz Okamoto: It's a… like, I didn't even apply. I didn't send in an audition tape, and I got asked to be an alternate, and I called Jerry, I said, what the fuck? Because I didn't… he said, well, who knows why they did it, but you should go. So I said, okay!

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Kaz Okamoto: So that's what I'm doing.

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Stephen Berger: What's the first prize?

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Jerry Corley: Like, 40 weeks of work.

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Cliff Spenger: That's a lot.

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Jerry Corley: So that's a good, that's a good, that's a good, you know, amount of work, definitely.

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Kaz Okamoto: My goal is one paying gig.

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Kaz Okamoto: Even if it's $25, that's my goal.

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Jerry Corley: So that's, it's a, it's a fun thing, you get a lot of exposure. There's a, there's always a cruise, agent there.

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Jerry Corley: And so, I've had lunch with a cruise agent a couple of different times. He said, Jerry, just teach your guys to work clean, and I'm looking for people of a certain age.

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Jerry Corley: Because that's what the cruises are, right? He said, we need more comedians of a certain age, and if they're clean, I'll put them to work for the, you know, for the rest of the year. I can put them to work for the whole year.

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Jerry Corley: So he's a Carnival Cruise agent, and they've got 24 ships out there with full-time comedy clubs.

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lina alva: Carnival Cruise?

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Jerry Corley: Yeah.

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lina alva: Like, the carnival proofs, like.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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lina alva: Oh, cool!

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Stephen Berger: Slow enough, lina.

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Jerry Corley: You're not old enough.

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lina alva: I'm not all the… I'm, like, almost 40! What are you talking about?

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lina alva: What?

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Stephen Berger: work.

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Kaz Okamoto: Oh, lina, we all have underwear older than you!

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lina alva: Thank you, y'all.

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Cliff Spenger: Thank you.

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Jerry Corley: But, lina, I assure you that if you had a, if you had a set, 45-minute set that was suitable for, the cruises, that that agent would go, she's perfect, put her on, because old people love attractive young women.

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lina alva: I'm not trying to go on a cruise, Jerry, you know that.

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Jerry Corley: I know that, but that's what the… the agent actually said that to one of the female comedians who was asking a question during one of his seminar, and they were like, he says, trust me, the old people would love to see an attractive young woman doing comedy, because there's so few and far between in comedy. So, he was.

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lina alva: One day, I'm learning right now. I'm learning right now.

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Jerry Corley: Definitely.

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Jerry Corley: All right, everybody, we'll see you, not this mon… this next Monday, but on the 28th.

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Kaz Okamoto: Alright, awesome.

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Jerry Corley: See you in Vegas.

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Kaz Okamoto: Bye!

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Jerry Corley: Alright, bye!

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Sara: Bye!

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Jerry Corley: Hi, Sara.

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Sara: Why, Jerry.