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How did the class do?
You’ll notice that the jokes below seem a lot more personal than the ones written
using any of the other joke writing methods. The Stream-of-Consciousness does
tend  to  lead  to  a  rant,  which  is  great  for  stand-up  comedy  or  for  putting  words
into  the  mouths  of  sitcom  or  sketch  characters.  You  can  also  play  ‘high-status
and  superior’  with  this  kind  of  material.  In  justifying  why  you  are  passionate
about  something  you  can  despair  of  the  audience  (or  other  characters)  for  not
feeling passionate about it too, and try to wind them up.
This came from the basic Stream-of-Consciousness sheet...
I’m telling you he’s an idiot. In a parallel universe where every single thing
was different - he’d still be an idiot.
This came from the reverse – very angry – Stream-of-Consciousness sheet...
I love having noisy neighbours. I don’t need an alarm clock anymore, they
helpfully bang on the wall at five EVERY morning. I sometimes wish I was
in a parallel universe where I’m the one disturbing them, but then I realise
it wouldn’t happen ‘cos I’d be dead, ‘cos nobody else would put up with
that shit!
This  idea  came  from  the  basic  Stream-of-Consciousness  sheet,  but  then  the
student deliberately worked on looking at the differences in the two celebrities’
achievements...
I was upset that Farrah Fawcett’s death was overshadowed by Michael
Jackson’s. I know people think he was the ‘King of Pop’ and she
just did her hair.
He may have spent six hours a day rehearsing the moonwalk but that’s how
long it took her to get that flick.
This came from the basic Stream-of-Consciousness sheet...
I hate the L’Oreal ‘Cos I’m worth it’ ads. I’d like to fly to the States just to
slap one of those women round the face and when she says ‘Why d’you do
that?’ say ‘Cos you’re worth it!’
This came from the Secret Love or Hate sheet...
Who here secretly loves their pet so much that you wish it would become
human so you can have sex with it?

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That bloke over there’s thinking ‘Why wait until it’s human!’
The basic idea came from writing about hating women’s magazines but the ideas
were worked on afterwards...
I hate women’s magazines. They offer you the world on the cover and don’t
deliver. I saw this one that said ‘New You, New Look, New Life’ That turned
out to be an article about the Witness Protection Program. I saw this other
one that went ‘You Won’t Recognise Yourself!’ That was an article about
Alzheimer’s.
This  came  from  the  basic  Stream-of-Consciousness  that  was  done  in  the  class
example earlier. The student went away and listened to the tape and worked on
it...
It’s funny they always put the weather on after the news, even when the
news is about the weather. Yesterday on the news it said there are
hurricanes here, rain and flooding there, tomorrow there’s the worst snow
for 50 years. And then they say, ‘and here’s the weather’ and you think,
yeah, I wonder what the weather’s like?
Again,  this  came  from  the  basic  Stream-of-Consciousness  exercise  done  in
class...
Mother Nature really needs to be more like a real mother. My mum goes,
‘have you cleaned your room?’ and I go ‘yeah!’ Mother Nature goes, ‘and
what about the oil spill in Mexico have you cleaned that up yet?’
This came from the Secret Love or Hate question sheet...
I secretly love pooing. I keep it secret, cos, well, it doesn’t look good on
your CV does it?

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