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title: "How long do you leave a joke alone after it dies twice? | Tough Crowd"
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description: "I’m trying not to turn two bad outings into a funeral, but I also don’t want to drag the same broken bit around for six weeks out of principle. If something get"
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# How long do you leave a joke alone after it dies twice?

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JayFirstOpenMic (https://toughcrowd.co/banter/Stand-Up-Comedians/JayFirstOpenMic) 30 Aug

I’m trying not to turn two bad outings into a funeral, but I also don’t want to drag the same broken bit around for six weeks out of principle. If something gets nothing twice in different rooms, do you park it for a while and come back with fresher eyes, or rewrite one clear thing and test it again straight away? I think my current system is either panic-edit immediately or become emotionally committed to proving the audience wrong, neither of which feels especially scientific.

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