• Cold open before going deep on one topic to prep the audience
• Smash cutting: say one thing, cut to a contrasting thing
  • “I love being a mother” ⇒ getting spit up on
• Being mindful of length ⇒ if it takes multiple days it may be more of a tv episode than a sketch
• Eliciting “real human emotions” from celebs
  • E.g. maisie williams fearing for her career
• Politicians and similar figures are going to have intentions for your specific audience (highlighting a new policy position, letting loose with the crowd)
  • Are going to want to stay intelligent/reputable

Charlie Notes

“Have your vegetables and eat them too” – basically  have information in the jokes- difficult balence

-have to find what ideas fit within format. Things that are too plot driven might be episode of tv rather than sketch