Clean Comedy Contest Winner John Manasco

About this episode

February contest winner John Manasco shares his creative process and writing techniques for comedy.

February contest winner John Manasco joins us to share his creative process behind writing a winning set in just two weeks. He shares a lot of great writing techniques to help you generate ideas quickly. We also go deep on how to organize your jokes and keep track of all your ideas. This is definitely worth a listen! Join next month's contest here: https://cleancomedycontest.com/ John's website: https://www.showyourbits.com/ https://www.instagram.com/john_manasco/

People in this episode

Guest: John Manasco

Topics covered

• comedy
• writing techniques
• joke organization
• creative process
• contest

Keywords

• clean comedy
• winning set
• generate ideas
• organize jokes
• track ideas

Mentioned in this episode

Products: clean comedy contest, showyourbits.com

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