Chris Duffy
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220 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Chris Duffy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you're first starting out in comedy, one of the big things that everyone learns is that if the audience isn't laughing at something you think is funny, it's often because they either don't have enough context or because you haven't layered enough elements on top.
So the elements have to be like your factual statement, but it's often like factual statement plus emotion.
So like...
look, alarm clock went off and I was so excited.
The alarm clock went off and I was so scared, right?
Like whatever the fact plus emotion is, you get the audience into a place really quickly where then you can deliver the punchline.
And I think so often in all communication, we forget that like people aren't inside of our heads.
So you have to give them that emotional information as well as the factual information.
I'll give you two answers.
One of which is like, just to say that you actually make it genuinely exciting and new for you.
So you find a way for it to not be rote and routine and a script for yourself.
For me, if I'm trying to tell a joke, I try and figure out like, how can I actually make myself laugh?
Not fake laugh, but like, how can I genuinely find the funny part to me of this story that I've told a hundred times?
The other part though is, and this is the part that's like a little more calculating, I guess, is if you want to make it seem like you've never said something before, you don't just think about the words.
You think about how you're delivering them.
You think about the way that your face and your body are.
And so taking a pause, for example, right?
Like if you pause and look up, if you go, huh, I see something outside of this window, right?
immediately people think, well, that's in the moment, right?
He paused and he looked up.
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