032 The Science of Stand Up Comedy, Dan Kapr of Dan Has Jokes
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dan is a stand-up comedian performing in clubs and festivals all over the country and has headlined shows in Baltimore, DC, and New York City. Dan also talks to other comedians about the science of joke-writing, and helps them work on new jokes on his podcast, Dan Has Jokes. This episode really is a fun, behind the scenes look at stand up and joke writing!
Find Dan on his website at: https://www.dankapr.com
Connect with Dan on Twitter: @danhasjokes
On Instagram: @danhasjokes
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danhasjokes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 32 of Curiosityness. I am the host, Travis DeRose, and this is episode |
| 0:10.4 | 32. Did I say that? This episode we have on Dan Kaper of Dan has jokes, and Dan's |
| 0:17.5 | stand-up comedian in the Baltimore area. |
| 0:22.3 | And he has a podcast called Dan has jokes where he has other comics on and they kind of like dissect jokes and, you know, try to build upon it and make it better. |
| 0:32.6 | So it's a pretty cool, interesting podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | That's how I found him. |
| 0:36.5 | And this, you know, I have him on here |
| 0:38.7 | and he just kind of tells me about the whole like behind the scenes, you know, experience for a |
| 0:44.7 | comic in what it is. So it's pretty interesting if you're at all into comedy and stand up. |
| 0:49.8 | He just kind of talks about his experience of what it's like and everything that they kind of have to go through. |
| 0:54.9 | It's pretty crazy. |
| 0:56.4 | So you kind of get a new found respect for comics, probably. |
| 1:01.7 | But I think you'll enjoy us. |
| 1:03.5 | It was fun. |
| 1:04.0 | It takes us a little bit to get going as it kind of does in all these interviews. |
| 1:08.2 | But once we get into it, it's really fun. |
| 1:10.1 | So here is the episode with Dan Kaper of Dan has jokes. |
| 1:17.2 | And boom, we're going. |
| 1:18.7 | How you doing, Dan? |
| 1:20.4 | Doing well. Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah. So you had a little bit of a rough time this morning, huh? |
| 1:26.6 | Yes, had a tire blowout. |
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