How do we use language in comedy? What is the social importance of comedy? What are the techniques used with language to create different types of humour? This series looks at how entertainers manipulate language to generate humour, and what this reveals about the nature of comedy and its function in society.
Featuring Henning Wehn, on cross cultural humour, Isy Suttie, on crafting a joke and Graham Fellows on creating his character John Shuttleworth.
Track 6: Crafting A Joke with Isy Suttie
This video focuses on the structure of one-liners, and the properties of language that comedians play with in the creation of jokes.
This video focuses on the structure of one-liners, and the properties of language that comedians play with in the creation of jokes.
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Crafting A Joke with Isy Suttie
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Originally published: Monday, 11 August 2014
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