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Crack the formula on how to deliver a joke with this workshop in Bandra
Updated On: 12 February, 2024 08:31 PM IST | Mumbai | Devanshi Doshi
Learn the art and science behind developing humour at this Bandra venue over a four-day-long workshop
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Participants will play improv games in the workshop
The joke is on you, if you think humour is an innate trait and cannot be taught. Over a four-day workshop, two professionals will attempt to crack the formula on how to deliver a joke. Nasir Engineer, founder of the organising group Flutr, and co-facilitator of the workshop, The Subtle Art of Humour, explains how, “I will be conducting this workshop along with Rohit Nair. Both of us are professionals in improv. Rohit is also a screenwriter. The idea was to bring his expertise in writing and mine in improv to teach individuals how to leverage their social and professional lives through humour.”
Much like any other art form, Engineer tell us, this one too has tools that can help ace humour. “Here, we will teach them techniques that are widely known and used to derive humour.” One such tool is the incongruity theory. “First, you set up a character and a premise. Then you take the character through the various journeys along the premise,” the improv coach explains. Once the audience is already expecting something to happen, you invert their thought process. “You deliver a punchline that violates the thinking pattern of your audience.”
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