Speaker's ToolsOkay, now. Let's go to our underground concept. It's the first underground office. It's the largest underground office. Okay, we take a brand new sheet of paper. Now we're doing exaggeration jokes. Now we're underground. This happens to be a mile, mile and a half. We're going to exaggerate how far down it is. What are People you'd find way far down.
Answer: Mole people.
John: Mole people.
Answer: Miner.
John: A miner, the devil.
Answer: Dead people.
John: Dead people.
Answer: Canaries.
John: Canaries. Think in terms of down. Way way down. You're physically down.
Answer: Core of the earth.
John: Core of the earth under your Things.
Answer: Elves.
John: Elves, yeah are way down there.
Answer: Oil.
John: Oil and getting the bends.
Answer: How about Jacques Cousteau.
John: Jacques Cousteau.
Answer: Nature gas.
John: Nature gas. Okay, some other stuff physically underground. You've got dinosaurs down there. And various levels of rocks. I don't know what they're called.
Answer: Sewer rats.
John: Sewer rats. Okay now. Well, ladies and gentlemen it's nice to be here at the opening of this underground office. I didn't realize how far underground we were until...
Answer: I saw the core of the earth.
John: I saw the core of the earth. I burnt my hand on the core of the earth. What else. What would be some kind of room equivalent.
Answer: The pitchfork room.
John: The pitchfork room or you have something about 'put hats here - pitchforks there.' Or we could do something like, I saw the cafeteria. Well the management calls it the cafeteria, we call it hell.
Answer: Saw a man with a red tail and suit that got stuck in the elevator.
John: Oh, okay. Saw a man with a red tail and suit stuck in the elevator.
Keep in mind this is a deliberately difficult area because it's not a real common frame of references. We don't commonly associate office with underground. I deliberately started out with automobile, and old automobile is real obvious concept. Expensive automobile is a little bit more abstract than that. So I am deliberately moving you to different levels - from real easy automobile to something more abstract. But I wanted to show you that principles apply no matter what area you are working in. So more stuff on underground offices.
Answer: Secretary's name is Persephone.
John: The secretary's name is Persephone. Uh, something about nausea, getting the bends. Something about when I come down here I have to wait a half hour for the bends to go away.
Answer: Pure geyser water.
John: Pure geyser water. Oh, the Crystal Spring people are here, they get the water for their bottling plant. How would you clean it. Uh, something about janitors are miners. That's what we're going to do from now on. It's a little bit tougher and we'll come back with some other angles on that. When we go to the Combo joke it'll be a bit easier.
Keep this in mind about these techniques. I am going to cover several techniques today. Some of them are hard, some of them are going to be easier. Stu, which one do you like the most, huh? It's the REVERSE which we'll come to later. But keep in mind different techniques, you will identify more with certain techniques than others.
But you should work on all of them to give your act variety. If you get too top heavy with one technique you become predictable. That's one of the problems with Carson, "That so ... whaterver." That technique was very very predictable. But that was probably just the way he set it up. Norm Crosby, the word play guy, it's all word play. For me I can only watch it for five or ten minutes because there's no surprise elements there. It's just too one dimensional. Okay that's it for the Exaggeration Joke Technique.
