A learning path in eight lenses

Comedy Path

One joke, eight ways of seeing it: timing, laugh rates and audience data, the science of laughter and tickling, why things are funny and punching up not down, laugh tracks, memes and AI, from Aristophanes to SCTV and Just for Laughs, puns and sketches, clowning and cartoons, and writing and performing a 3-minute clean set. Clean, kind comedy only. Self-directed modules for curious learners, 12 and up, including adults. Type, tap and draw right on the pages. If you’re not logged in, your work saves in this browser. Members’ work saves to their account. Use Print my work or Print blank on any module to print it.

Lens 3, The Psychology of Comedy, is open to everyone. The other seven lenses are for members: log in to open them. Each module works on its own, so start with whichever grabs you, and save Lens 8 (Execution) for last: it leads into the capstone in the printed book.