The last part of Oliver Phommavanh’s insights on stand up comedy… He teaches, he writes, he makes us laugh..and he’s got this thing for carebears – I forgot to ask him about that… Do you practice your delivery in front of the mirror/friends/your cat/dog? I don’t rehearse it like a performance, though I do like to write out every joke and cram every

More from Oliver Phommavanh on how he writes stand up comedy routines, so lean forward and smile… How does writing for stand up differ from writing comedy in fiction? When you’re writing just for laughs, all that matters is the set up and the punch-line. Whether the set up is a sentence or a paragraph, you’re leading up to a laugh. Writing comedy

Look!! I bring you Oliver Phommavanh, aka Winfree. I met Oliver a little while back thanks to the CBCA (NSW). There was lucky dust floating around that day because we’ve both ended up signing 2 books with Penguin. As promised, here are Oliver’s thoughts on writing stand-up, with parts 2 & 3 to be posted in the next few days, (most magical given

I like that heading. Makes me feel all officious. Like I am running a corporation. Or a rodeo. Quick bits: – I’m way excited about escaping to Melbourne this week to talk about Raw Blue at Penguin’s New and Emerging Authors session (with Gabrielle Williams, Kirsten Murphy and Gabrielle Stroud); – although I have been escaping anyway by doing way too much surfing