How to Whitewash or How to Get out of Work

1. Describe your favorite stand-up comedian's techniques
that make his/her delivery of humorous content funny.

2. How did Mark Twain get his start as a comedian?

3. How did Twain use dialect to increase the humor in his orations?

4. What was Twain's deadpan delivery and how
did it help him develop rapport with the audience?

5. Create your own comic sketch for Saturday Night Live.
Write it down and include a paragraph convincing of its humorous content.