Podcast Title: Comedy For Life

Episode Title: Episode 3: Brainstorming Details

Host: Walt Frasier

BRAINSTORMING DETAILS WORKSHEET

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Episode Description:

Walt Frasier delves into the second step of stand-up comedy training: adding vivid details to your stories. This episode focuses on how to take a central idea from your initial brainstorm and enrich it with sensory details to make it more engaging and relatable for your audience. Learn how to identify the key elements of your story and use them to craft a compelling narrative.

Key Takeaways:

• Enhance Your Stories: Take a story that resonated with you and your audience from your first brainstorming session and expand upon it.
• Identify Story Elements: Define the essential components of your story:
  • Who are the characters (including yourself)?
  • Where does the story take place?
  • What is the main action or most important event?
• Engage the Senses: Bring your story to life by incorporating sensory details:
  • What did you see?
  • What did you hear?
  • What did you smell?
  • What did you feel?
  • What did you taste?
• Amplify Your Performance: Go back on stage and share the same story, this time with the newly added details.
• Use Past Work: Draw on previous exercises or feedback to further develop your story.

Episode Highlights:

• The importance of adding specific details to make a story more engaging.
• How to identify the key elements of a story (characters, setting, action).
• Using sensory details to create a vivid and immersive experience for the audience.
• The value of getting back on stage to practice incorporating new details.

Resources Mentioned:

• Previous podcast episodes on stand-up comedy training
• Personal notes or feedback from previous comedy exercises

Call to Action:

• Choose a story from your first brainstorming exercise.
• Answer the questions about characters, setting, action, and sensory details.
• Perform the story on stage, focusing on incorporating the new details.
• Continue to refine your storytelling by using feedback and past work.