We've heard it a million different ways from a million different comedians:
"Women do this." "Men do that."
We get it - we're different.
But what's funny about it that we haven't heard that much about? How about a society set up to point out differences instead of leaning into the fact that many perspectives mean more new ideas. That's why Mike Paramore joins us on this episode - not only did he find the funny in the differences between men and women, he approaches it from a fresh perspective, questioning a system that emphasizes differences, rather than embracing them.
In this episode, we talk about:
How 2020 was going to be a huge year for Mike until, well, 2020 /
How you determine when you start doing comedy /
The first real test of Mike’s career – doing a new 5 minutes at 4 consecutive shows /
Festival contest strategy /
Starting as a Christian comedian /
Advantages of working clean and the dirty joke Mike is trying to clean up /
Developing a chill confidence onstage /
Pointing out the elephant, or the crux of your content /
Mike’s bit about the differences between men and women /
The power of asking “why” /
The societal conditioning of girls acting like girls and boys acting like boys /
Being taught to flex our intelligence and conditioned out of listening and caring /
Women getting make-believe, but still applicable toys as kids /
Telling stories and venting to find punchlines through repeated performance /
Bill Burr’s cruise ship bit and how he gets away with population control jokes /
Taking ideas from paper to the stage to work /
How to approach an overdone premise /
If men or women laugh more and why /
And more!
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Produced by Golden Ox Studio | Music: Producedbyzip
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