The Polymath Project | How Comedy works | Day 4
" With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny" Through this blog, I will be sharing my daily experiences and insights as I embark on this journey to become a polymath. I will be exploring a diverse range of topics, from science and technology to art and literature, and sharing my thoughts and observations along the way. The Polymath Project How Comedy Works: My wife tells me I'm funny. My mom laughs every time we talk. Maybe I am funny. Or maybe they just love me too much. The only way I can figure out whether I am funny or not, is to find out how comedy works. My earliest experiences with comedy all revolve around one of my elder brother. I remember laughing for hours with my cousins, sitting in circle around my bother, listening to his stories. He would narrate how something strange happened to him and it would seem so out of the world, and we would all tear up laughing. He is a fantastic storyteller, drawing everyone in from the sta...