Build up your comic vocabulary by consulting "Greg Dean's College of Comedy Knowledge's Glossary of Comedy Terms" (see Resources).
To kill: To perform well. The audience loves you.
To bomb: To perform badly.
Dying: The process of bombing.
Set: Your collection of jokes.
Setup: The explanation part of a joke, describing a situation or telling a story.
Punch line: The funny part of a joke.
Heckler: Someone in the audience who talks and interrupts a comedian in an insulting way.
Blue: Using dirty language or talking about sexual or adult matters in an explicit way.
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