Practice

What Would You Tell Someone Just Starting with Jokes and their structure?

Discover what ancient wisdom reveals about comedy's foundations. Use this powerful reflection prompt to examine humor and structure through fresh eyes.

Nasguide

What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Nas. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Nas, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Nas

Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.

Understand first

The Question That Answers Itself The Setup-Reversal Structure The Fool's Perspective Inversion Timing as Invisible Architecture The Listener's Complicity in Meaning-Making

Go deeper

Jokes and their structure: Questions Worth Asking The Examined Jokes and their structure Why Jokes and their structure Matters Jokes and their structure Living with Jokes and their structure

Peri

New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.