Improvisation is how you waste your parents money in your twenties.

Identity Fair.

I'm Amber Ruffin, and today I'm going to teach you some comedy saying that a song was free blackout.

That's what happens when everyone in the audience is black.

Just getting it is when you have a very short scene that goes to black at the end.

Set up now you can't have a joke without a set up was to set up It's the beginning part of the joke, for example.

Oh, no, I should have started an example.

Okay.

But, for example, is your joke about astronauts you could tell because astronauts were mentioned in set up Knicks punch up.

Okay, Now punch up is what you need when you have written something that is not funny enough.

Punch up is what happens when you write something and then you want more jokes in it.

So you give it to someone else usually, and they punch it up for you.

A callback is mentioning something that you mentioned earlier in the show.

Hopefully to get a laugh.

So if earlier, like when I mentioned astronauts Oh, my gosh, Callback.

That term is out of this world Not in like an astronaut s o many people watching there Going this is company.

Okay, now blow is what you do when you don't have enough energy to I'm just getting blue is a term for the end of a scene.

So it's the last big, splashy joke that you dio toe end whatever sketch you're doing blue material.

Okay, so blue means dirty.

So whenever you get to like a corporate show, you go, How blue can we be?

And they say no blue at all or they say everyone's drinking You can go, is blue is you want a spot is when you have a set at a theater So you got a spot at a place that means you're gonna perform there Now, spot can also be where you live.

If you're like in the nineties, it's where it's just fat.

Old people are somewhere laughing Now again, if this is 1990 bombings, something different means great.

You did a great job.

That's great.

But Bob comedy term means you did a very bad job and you are not good at comedy or the audience hates your guts.

Um, been hated by a little audience I have.

It's bad.

You can bomb premise, man.

You're never gonna believe what The premises.

Ah, premises.

Just the whole thing.

Like Scooby Doo.

The premises.

Ah, bunch of Children drive around in a van with no supervision.

Well, one of them is high as a heckler.

Okay, Now the heckler is when someone is in the audience, they have a lot to say about your act.

And sometimes when you have a heckler, you can let them boo you and be really mean to you.

And then you can go home and cry, or sometimes you have a heckler, and then you could hurt their feelings really bad.

It's your choice.

Bit Ah, bit is a joke.

It's kind of like, um, you know, what's a good bit?

Is that Z what she said, like, that's probably the main definition of a bit.

That's a goofy thing.

You do over and over and over.

It gets funnier every time you do it, and then not funny at all.

Bit physical comedy is when you fall down.

Physical comedy can be any type of laughs.

You get off of physicality so it could be dancing.

It can be, uh, making faces.

So who's really good at physical comedy?

Jim Carrey, who is 41 doesn't move around that much in for a rough in catchphrases Something and character says over and over again for comedic effect.

Like, um, you got it, dude from full house.

Or, um, Did I do that from Family Matters or Ember Ruffins famous catch phrase, which is holy moly.

Look at all those sausages.

You're still working on it.

Killed, killed is what happens when you do a good job.

So when you get out there and people are laughing, crying, having the time of their lives, that means you killed but now killed also has a second meaning, and that means you stabbed someone and then they died from it.

It's also killed.

Heck is when someone is doing comedy that is well worn territory.

It's stuff you've seen before.

It's cheap.

It doesn't take a lot of creativity to come up with its hack crowd.

Work is when you talk to people in the crowd now, lots of times you do crowd work because you sense the audience might not be all the way into it.

So you have to go out into the audience and pluck their attention from them.

So lots of times you go.

Yahoo here is from Omaha.

Oh, my God.

I'm from Omaha.

Ah, you all thank you all.

Zoo is the shit, but it's not like that.

Ps Arzu is the literal best zoo in the world.

Goto, Omaha, Nebraska See for yourself.

Tight five is what every stand up should be aiming toe have at the beginning where you have five minutes of material and you know it kills because it kills.

It's tight and because it's five minutes, it's five because it's those things together.

Type five.

Okay, so a sketches when you write a silly bit, that is part of a scene where you can just explore a single funny idea or the structure of a joke usually over and over and over again.

Some sketch examples include two wild and crazy guys or, um, no, I think that's the best example of the sketches.

Two wild and crazy guys.

And that sounds like a bit, but it's not excellent.

Sketch capper is what you do at the end of your show that caps it off.

Thanks for watching.

I hope you learned some new comedy slang hope people, people be Bob Won't be way.