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It's all messed up, yeah, everything's messed up. We're going from this mess up to the next setup. Everything seems so messed up.
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Hello, friends. I am Michael Howcomb, and this is another episode of Messed Up to Setups. And in today's episode, I'm going to be doing another episode on pulling back the curtain of my joke writing. So I'm just sitting here and I was looking at a headline. I just recorded another episode.
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So if you haven't watched episode number two, go back and do it. I just took the headline of the article I'm about to look at and milked nine jokes out of that or so in about 10 minutes. So now I'm actually going to read the article we're going to read.
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3. Writing Jokes From The News: Writing Simple Jokes #3

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Michael Halcomb
Dec 14, 2024
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In the third installment of the “Messed-Up To Set-Ups” podcast, comedian Michael Halcomb spends more time pulling back the curtain on his joke-writing process. This time, he writes jokes from the content of a news article about drones in New Jersey. For the precursor to this video, which was about writing jokes from news headlines, click HERE. For more great resources, check out MichaelHalcomb.Live. To Watch on YouTube, which is probably more helpful since you can see the process in action, go HERE.

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So if you haven't watched episode number two, go back and do it. I just took the headline of the article I'm about to look at and milked nine jokes out of that or so in about 10 minutes. So now I'm actually going to read the article we're going to read.