Coaxing laughter with tiny indicators

I feel like I’ve seen these indicators in day to day life, or stumbled upon them with friends. They are easier to stumble upon with friends, because they are primed by experiences and memories so deeply that you can use that shared knowledge to play and find these indicators.

Creating these indicators systematically, and for audiences that don’t know you, is a whole other beast. But an important challenge.

Many indicators feel bad at first (winking at the audience), but I imagine that many types of indicators can be made effective by correctly building them up.

How does one build an indicator up? Maybe by pairing it with great jokes first, then letting the indicator doing more of the heavy lifting later on. More to explore here.

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