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Comedy Scene Mechanics

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Build comedy from character and structure.

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Help me build a comedic scene. Characters and situation: [CHARACTERS_SITUATION]. Comic engine (misunderstanding, status reversal, escalation, deadpan): [COMIC_ENGINE]. Platform and audience: [PLATFORM_AUDIENCE].

Explain the mechanics in plain terms: set-up, pay-off, rule of three, escalation, callbacks, and the reversal. Outline the scene beats with where each laugh comes from, and write the scene in about 400 words with original jokes that come from character. Provide a table of each joke type used. Then offer three punch-ups for the weakest joke and a tag to end the scene. Avoid jokes at the expense of vulnerable groups.

Add a short diagnosis guide for jokes that fall flat, such as unclear setup, wrong word order, or too many words before the punchline, with a quick fix for each. Provide a list of five comic devices with a one-line explanation, and a table where I can rate my scene's jokes from 1 to 5 and decide which to cut.

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Mechanics: set-up (Dave insists he is calm), escalation (he defrosts the freezer with a hairdryer), reversal (the neighbour arrives with a fire extinguisher he already owns).
Scene (extract):
DAVE: I'm perfectly relaxed.
(He tries the hairdryer on a block of ice. The block answers with a crack.)
DAVE: That's normal. That's the sound of progress.
Joke types used: denial, escalation, callback.
Punch-up for the weakest line: "I'm perfectly relaxed" becomes "I am a lake."
Tag: the fire extinguisher is empty.

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