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Are You Overworking the Wrong Skill?

Part 14—"how to master the stage"

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Scott Dikkers
Oct 18, 2025
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Tweaking

Jerry Seinfeld talks about refining the nuance of how a joke is told, slightly changing the inflection, for example, and noticing how it gets a better laugh when said one way versus another.

You’ve probably noticed this phenomenon if you’ve performed the same joke a few times.

A lot of comedians work on this kind of tweaking to …

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