Comedy Craft

Roles: comedian, audience, setup, punchline, callback, misdirection, timing, tag, bit, premise

The techniques and structural principles of constructing comedy. As a source domain, comedy craft provides precise vocabulary for misdirection, timing, structural dependency, and audience expectation management. The frame foregrounds the engineering of surprise — comedy works by building an expectation and then violating it in a way that produces pleasure rather than confusion. Its metaphorical transfers are strongest when the target domain involves information sequencing, structural dependencies, or the management of attention.

As Source Frame (8)

• Callback → argumentation, narrative, performance
• Clapter → communication
• Comedy Is Truth and Pain
• Killing Kittens → creative-editing, writing
• Lampshading → narrative
• Lightning Rod Joke → creative-review, negotiation
• Rubber Duck Solution → problem-solving
• Shit Sandwich → feedback-delivery, communication

Applied To This Frame (1)

• architecture-and-building → Load-Bearing Pun