Dan Mintz

In the short set, I wouldn't break from it very much, but I do break from it a lot in...

in a longer set.

And I think about, I mean, I try to basically not break for a while because I really want to commit to it, you know, for like 10 minutes.

And then I kind of get more relaxed kind of as we go along.

And there are certain jokes that like,

the point, like the point of view of like a pun, I mean, there's not a lot, puns don't usually work, but sometimes like there's a great joke that's a pun.

And it's like, it's, it's the point of view is, could be either like, look how smart I am.

I thought this pun, like I'm isolating a joke, or it could be like,

I'm just saying something that happened to me.

I mean, the thing I'm thinking, this is like an old joke from many years ago, but it's like, you know, it'd be really confusing as if you're performing an abortion and someone ran in yelling, abort, abort.

And I say it as though I really think that'd be confusing.

And like the other,

The other way to do that pun would be like, yeah, they were supposed to have an abortion, but I guess they aborted it.

And it's like, you're hitting it.

And that's not the joke that's gonna work in the same way.

But like with a long set and you build credibility, you do have some jokes that are like, this is maybe a little bit like...

This is a little bit more throwaway, this a little bit more this.

And I do kind of relax the character.

But I really try to be strategic about the timing of like from beginning to end.

So I'm shifting gears at exactly the right time.