Chapter 3

Note:

“MAPP stands for material, audience, performer, and purpose.”

Excerpt From: Mark Shatz & Mel Helitzer. “Comedy Writing Secrets.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/comedy-writing-secrets/id1331664443?mt=11

I really like Purpose. What is my purpose, in addition to getting a laugh, of what I’m saying?

7 most embarrassing moments in my life:

  1. Walking into a room thinking the applause was for me, when it was for the person behind me.
  2. My fly open/boogers on my nose/food in my teeth/period blood on my pants.

7 things I do not like about myself; personal faults according to what others have told me (look at my sister’s emails????)

  1. I flee too soon.
  2. I’m not grateful or thankful for others.
  3. I’m horrible at math
  4. That I’m Asian/different.
  5. That I’m a go-getter, motivated, skilled.
  6. The pimple scars on my face.
  7. My deeply held, and possibly unknown to me, shame.

Top three least redeeming characteristics

  1. Overly sensitive and overly emotional
  2. Will say what I’m thinking
  3. Don’t like to clean

3 most noticeable physical features: petite, asian, female

Celebrities who act and look like me, according to friends and family: Lucy Lui; Dharma (of Dharma and Greg);

250 word personal ad based on my less than desirable features

This drives me crazy writing lab: things that make me feel hostility:

Kristin: people who follow you around/stalk you.

Not loading the dishwasher efficiently.

Not sorting laundry before washing.

People who are hypocritical.

People who make excuses for their bs, for their sad life.

People who cut you off but then give you the finger

White people who don’t know they are white.

Upper middle class people who think they are blue collar

People who don’t have integrity

Something to remember, may apply to my poopy diaper story:

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
—James Thurber

Excerpt From: Mark Shatz & Mel Helitzer. “Comedy Writing Secrets.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/comedy-writing-secrets/id1331664443?mt=11

Play on Words/Atom Smasher:

Sarcasm: Sargasm: Really funny sex

Hepatitis: (any other letter)

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