A conversational transcript of a YouTube video where Chris Collins, Andrew, and Christian reflect on a humor-training experience. Core claims: humor arises from the way you look at and pay attention to the world (perspective/curiosity), practicing observation enriches everyday life and increases enjoyment, and humor skills can be structured (e.g., comic triple) and applied beyond stand-up to build connections in professional/client settings. The speakers compare comedic styles, note the difference between being funny socially versus onstage, and emphasize that observational humor becomes a repeatable tool for engagement.
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So, Christian, I would be curious. Your biggest takeaway from.
Our time with Andrew, and maybe your time too, because you spent a little bit more. But I'll tell you, my biggest takeaway, Drew, was that it all starts with the way you look at things and pay attention to things. And when we were going through your training, we. One of the things that you were teaching us was that humor is in the way you look at it. And you started to see things you wouldn't have seen before you started to pay attention, or I started to pay attention to things I wouldn't have paid attention to. And it just got easier just because of the way that I looked at things, right?
Absolutely. Yeah. It all starts with that kind of. That sense of humor, that perspective on the world. Like, it's. It's the things that you find interesting. Like, I don't know if people like, when watching videos and stuff, if you're on a zoom call, I'm constantly playing the, like, zoom game of, like, what's in that person's background, right? So, like, as soon as we've joined, I'm like, looking at Chris's background and it's like, all right, that's a fantastic orange velvet chair. Like, how smooth that must be to sit in, right? So I'm thinking about that. I'm looking at the books on the shelf. Like, I wonder what the best book on that shelf is, which one's good, etc. I'm looking at Christian's background and I'm like, okay, that's clearly the bottom of a fighter jet. But in some ways it's like that missile kind of looks like something else. So I'm like, it's kind of a little bit weird, that.
Female, right?
Like, female top. Like, what's. I don't know if there's a word. Phallic that's also.
Oh, you see? Boobs.
Niplish is really. I don't know. But like, you kind of see. So it's just like. And that to me is so appropriate for Christian based on how. How I met him, like in whatever. But, like, you play those types of, like this perspective game of what's just a little bit different. And that's where it all starts. It's all what's. What's interesting to you, what makes you go like, huh? Why is that like that? And that develops your sense of humor. And from that sense of humor, you develop your, like, ability to humor, the jokes that you think of. But you see this in stand up comedians, right? Like, you know, I love Eddie Izard. But his sense of humor is very different than say Chris Rock, who is also great, which is very different than Dave Chappelle, which is very different than Ali Wong, which is very different than Tignatar. Like they all have their specific take or view on the world. And that's where humor starts is, is what you find interesting or what you find not even necessarily funny, but what you're just curious about. What makes you go, huh?
Yeah, it, it, yeah, it changed the way I looked at things. I started paying attention more, I guess. What was your biggest takeaway? Christian?
Very similar. So I thought that the way that I would describe it this is that I became more enriched in life and things have a little bit more depth and a little more meaning. And with that observation and trying to like just see the funny and regular every day, it ended up making life a little bit more enjoyable. So I'm actually, I'm happier. I'm like laughing and smiling down the street and like, you know, like I saw the weirdest thing yesterday when I was walking to work and like normally it would be like the worst thing.
In the world, but like.
Somebody shooting up heroin is funny and it was great.
It was a great story. Like that's, you don't get to see that kind of stuff every day. So it was, it was a welcome to New York. But yeah, speaking of structure, I was going to do this, this book and it was an all almond diet, but that's just nuts.
Would you describe his, his style, Andrew is more like Rodney Dangerfield.
Like Christians, it's a more confident Rodney Dangerfield because Rodney Dangerfield is very much like, I get that I get no respect and everything is like, you know, self deprecating. Is very self deprecating and all that. Like, you know, I think he has a joke that's something like when I was born, my, you know, the, the, the doctor, you know, slap me on behind because I was crying and then slapped me in the face because I was ugly or something like that. It's very, very self deprecating. I think Christians is a little bit more confident than that. But no, I think it's a great sense of humor I still think about. And this is the value, like you said, humor allows you to connect with people. It creates bigger connections. Because I still think about one of the things that Christian was working on when we were working together was going to the grocery store and like the fact that you're wearing a mask now, you can't like you can't separate the bag. So now every Time I'm in the grocery store, I think of Christian when I'm trying to separate those bags, because this humor that he articulate and you're like, oh, my God, you're so, so right. So it's a great way to connect. And what's great about it too is like, sometimes that connection happens even when you're no longer in the room because you're like, oh, that's such a funny thing. Next time I experience that thing that he talked about, like, I guess the next time I see someone shooting heroin, think of Christian as well. Hopefully that's not too common of a thing, but. Right. It creates that connection. And so it's a great, you know, he, he has great observational humor as well.
Yeah, he's.
He's.
For a long, for, you know, as long as I've known him, he's one of the funniest people that I, that I know. But it's interesting to see him with structure. Like, the change is very interesting because he's always been funny. Right. He's naturally funny. But there's a, there's a difference. And I think I, I saw an interview once with Louis CK I think it was Chris Rock and maybe Seinfeld.
And somebody else and Ricky Gervais HBO special called Talking Funny or something like that. It's a fantastic special.
Yeah. And they were talking about how they have friends that when they're like hanging out, playing poker or whatever, can like literally have them in stitches, but they step up in front of a microphone and they're not funny anymore. Like, it's a different art. To be able to do it in front of an audience and bend a room is completely different than just being funny. And I've kind of seen that evolution with Christian where he, he could do it reactively, he was just naturally funny, but now he can apply it. He can, he can apply it to stories and to lessons and things like that. So I think, you know, it's. It's awesome. Like, it's fun, it's fun to watch.
And it's a great thing to recognize is that you don't have to be a stand up comedian to be funny. You don't have to do stand up to use humor to, you know, build better relationships with your clients or to make people laugh, etc. But you can learn from them if you want to. Right. It can help you make it even a little bit stronger. And so, yeah, there's a difference between conversational humor and presentational humor. And what you do in a comedy Club versus what you would do and, you know, an office setting, etc. But those techniques can meld together in that one, especially as it becomes second nature. So, like, you know, when you first start to learn them, it's like, okay, the comic triple. It's like, okay, very specific and rigorous and all that. And then as you ingrain that into your behavior and how you speak it, you just start to naturally start to speak that way. And I don't know, Christian, if you're starting to recognize that as well.
I'm getting there. Not as I'm not as fast as you are at it and recognizing it, but when. When Chris told me that story yesterday, I immediately thought, we can attach a comic triple to this thing and exaggerate it and make it a bigger deal. I almost want to tell it, but I know that we can't. But it's interesting how you do start to think in threes and sixes and nines. I guess, like, you start to go into the multiples and everything. But yeah, the thing that's really impressive is that not only do you have that system for the. Creating the humor, your ability to apply to the right situations, especially when I'm thinking about clients. Right. And if we're in a. In a service department, we're dealing with a client, like, how do we use that humor to break the ice and everything. And your system identifies those opportunities to quickly, like, respond to that. And that's what I really, really like about what you do, is that you can apply it to the business world really easily.
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