Will Storr

That's not really how you feel, but you see how this is appealing, and you see that there's a pattern that seems to be successful, and then you just mimic that pattern or mock that pattern.

It's just people are so easily influenced.

And when someone is really stunningly good, like there's a David Tell problem.

The David Tell problem is David Tell is so good that when you work with him all the time, you start delivering your punchlines like him.

But they're not as good as his punchlines.

And you fucking sound like Dave Attell.

But it's not even, they're not like plagiarists.

They're just easily influenced people that are starting, they're not good yet.

You know what I mean?

And you get susceptible to patterns.

When guys work together all the time, I see they start making the same sort of similar hand movements on stage.

You start doing the same kind of things.

Well, that's what Heinrich Thompson said he did.

Didn't he write The Great Gatsby over and over and over again just to get a sense of the rhythm of the words?

When he was learning how to write, I believe he did that.

But I think he also did the book of Revelations, didn't he?

I believe that for sure.

Typed out the great Gatsby and farewell to arms.

Word for word.

A method for learning how to write like the masters.