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Timing is very important in making a good comedy. If something should be funny but doesn’t arrive in 1. _________ course, it will not be funny. Timing has everything to do with how well something resonates with an 2. __________ , and those who practise timing do so by exercising their neurons. Humans are remarkably capable 3. ___________ sequencing only a handful of muscle movements in parallel — lifting an arm, making a fist, opening your hand, and closing it again, but we can make thousands of these timed movements at the same time. There is no reason an actor cannot act while he or she exercises 4. __________ time to time. It’s only when the exercise is done “wrong” that it produces a terrible result, and there is no greater wrong than failing to 5. ___________ the signal that sounds at precisely the right moment. In the 6. __________ of a comedy routine, several signals must be heard at the same time. One of these is the punchline. When you hear people 7. ___________ jokes, it can sometimes seem as though they’re building up to something for far too long. When they eventually get to an amusing observation, it doesn’t seem all that funny, because the punchline has been 8. __________ for too long. The better the joke, the longer tension can be allowed to build. A comedian wants to develop a degree of tension before releasing it with the punchline, but it cannot be 9. __________ played. The better the joke, the longer tension can be allowed to build.A comedian isn’t likely to tell his audience something he doesn’t think is funny! 10. ___________, this tension needs to be released at precisely the right moment or the punchline won’t be funny.

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