Quote: "Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language."
The skillful use of pauses, gestures, facial expressions and vocal inflections to create comedic impact and rhythm in performance or writing.
Understanding Timing: Timing is crucial in comedy. This topic covers the basics of timing, why it's important, and what good timing can do for a joke.
Delivery: Timing is related to delivery. This covers everything about the pace, tone, and inflection of a joke, as well as other factors that affect how it's received by the audience.
Pause: A pause can be used to build anticipation for a punchline or emphasize something in a joke. This topic covers the techniques for incorporating pauses in comedy.
Timing in Stand-Up: Stand-up comedy is all about timing. This topic covers how timing is used in stand-up comedy and offers tips for budding stand-up comedians.
Timing in Sitcoms: Sitcoms rely heavily on timing, from the pacing of jokes to the delivery of lines. This topic explores how timing is used in sitcoms and how it affects the overall comedy.
Timing in Sketch Comedy: Sketch comedy is all about precision in timing. This topic covers the techniques and strategies involved in creating effective timing in sketch comedy.
Improv: Improvisational comedy is heavily reliant on timing, as performers must be quick on their feet and make decisions on the fly. This topic explores how timing is used in improvisational comedy.
Reaction Shots: A reaction shot is a cutaway to capture the audience's reaction to a joke or situation. This topic covers how reaction shots are used in comedy and their importance in timing.
Timing in Film Comedy: Timing is critical to effective film comedy, from visual gags to the pacing of the plot. This topic looks at how timing is used in film comedy and how to master it.
Timing and Musical Comedy: Musical comedy mixes comedy with song and dance, and timing is just as crucial here as in other forms of comedy. This topic looks at the importance of timing in musical comedy and how to nail it.
Emotional Timing: Timing isn't just about punchlines; it can also be used to create dramatic tension or heighten emotional impact. This topic explores how to use timing to enhance emotional scenes in comedy.
Cross-Cutting: Cross-cutting is a technique used in film and television to create comedic juxtapositions. This topic covers how to use cross-cutting to create comedic timing effects.
Comic Rhythm: The rhythm or pace of a joke, sketch, or bit is an essential part of comedy timing. This topic looks at the different types of comic rhythm and how to use them to create effective timing.
Comedy Beats: Comedy beats are the smaller beats within a joke or bit that build anticipation and create comic effect. This topic explores how to identify and use comedy beats effectively.
Physical Comedy Timing: Physical comedy involves using the body as a source of humor. This topic explores how to use physical comedy timing to create effective comedy.
Physical timing: Refers to the timing of physical movements and actions of the comedians or characters in a comedic work. It is closely related to slapstick comedy.
Verbal timing: Refers to the timing of the delivery of comedic lines or jokes. This would include the careful selection of words and the timing of those words.
Pacing: Refers to the speed at which a comedic scene or piece of work moves. A scene's pacing can speed up, slow down, or remain consistent.
Delay: This type of timing involves the situation or person that is the source of the humor taking an unexpected and usually embarrassing amount of time to do something.
Rhythm: This type of timing is the pace or speed of actions occurring; for example, the accumulation of humorous elements happening at regular intervals.
Incongruity: Incongruity is a form of comedic timing in which an unexpected or impossible element is introduced into a scene or event, causing the audience to see the situation from a different perspective.
Irony: In an ironic comedic scene, there is a contradiction between what is expected and what really happens. It makes the audience interpret the situation in a humorous way.
Suspension: Refers to delaying the punch line of a joke until the audience is prepared for it.
Deadpan: Deadpan humor is delivered in a straight-faced, expressionless manner. It involves intentionally being serious or straightforward to reveal the juxtaposition with the absurdity happening around.
Callbacks: Involves referring back to a previous joke or moment to create depth and connect the dots, which can create a recurring theme of humor.
Quote: "Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech."
Quote: "The duration of every syllable is equal (syllable-timed); The duration of every mora is equal (mora-timed). The interval between two stressed syllables is equal (stress-timed)."
Quote: "The idea was first expressed thus by Kenneth L. Pike in 1945."
Quote: "The concept of language naturally occurring in chronologically and rhythmically equal measures is found at least as early as 1775 (in Prosodia Rationalis)."
Quote: "This has implications for linguistic typology: D. Abercrombie claimed 'As far as is known, every language in the world is spoken with one kind of rhythm or with the other.'"
Quote: "French, Telugu, and Yoruba... are syllable-timed languages."
Quote: "English, Russian, and Arabic... are stress-timed languages."
Quote: "Empirical studies have not been able to find acoustic correlates of the postulated types, calling into question the validity of these types."
Quote: "However, when viewed as a matter of degree, relative differences in the variability of syllable duration across languages have been found."
Quote: "Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language."
Quote: "Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech."
Quote: "The concept of language naturally occurring in chronologically and rhythmically equal measures is found at least as early as 1775 (in Prosodia Rationalis)."
Quote: "This has implications for linguistic typology: D. Abercrombie claimed 'As far as is known, every language in the world is spoken with one kind of rhythm or with the other.'"
Quote: "Empirical studies have not been able to find acoustic correlates of the postulated types, calling into question the validity of these types."
Quote: "French, Telugu, and Yoruba... are syllable-timed languages."
Quote: "English, Russian, and Arabic... are stress-timed languages."
Quote: "As far as is known, every language in the world is spoken with one kind of rhythm or with the other."
Quote: "Relative differences in the variability of syllable duration across languages have been found."
Quote: "While many linguists find the idea of different rhythm types appealing..."