I'm sorry, but this was the most hacky moment in the entire episode.
If you have to ASK the crowd member, impliclty or explicitly, what's funny about their job, that's hacky.
If you have to ASK the crowd member, impliclty or explicitly, what's funny about their job, that's hacky.
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I'm saying that this was not a technically good crowd work interaction.
I've never heard Taylor Tomlinson, Jimmy Carr, or Josh Johnson ask someone, effectively, "what's funny about you?"
It would be funny to ask a mortician for the funniest thing that's happened in their job bc their job is not funny.
But for a supposed crowd work comedian to ask a comedy teacher straight out "what's funny" is lazy, IMO. "Do my job for me, please?"
If she were a poetry teacher, it would be natural to ask about the best poem a student wrote. If she were a gymnastics teacher, it would be natural to ask about the best trick.
She teaches funny, he asked about the funny.
Those are absolutely questions I would ask one of those people if I met them out in the world.
But a comic helps us look at the world differently. They shouldn't be asking and reacting the same way I would. The best ones dig up funny, they don't ask for it on a platter.