Episode Eighty-Two – Talking Lyics, Comedy, and Story Telling with Mikey Mason

In which Jeb and Steve get to ask Mikey all about his Kickstarter’s, writing lyrics, telling stories, doing stand-up, and how his on-stage identity and real-life identity interact.

Guidelines for Running a Comedic Game

1. Simple Rules (minimal look-up during play)
2. Simple Concept
3. Simple Characters (archetypes)
4. Opposing Character Goals
5. Player Investment (they must know that their characters have an effect on the world)
6. Create a funny situation for the players to react to, with humor
7. Set-up a “Straight Man” as a punchline for the jokes
8. Players have to be ready for their characters to fail, and to laugh about it. This can be helped by setting their expections at the beginning of the game.

Resources and References

• Movie: Love Actually (2003)
• Movie: Nanny McPhee (2005)
• Bandcamp: Impotent Nerd Rage
• Kickstarter: Barbarian Jetpack
• Bandcamp: Mikey Mason
• YouTube: She Don’t Like Firefly
• Comic: Ray Price
• YouTube: Jonathan Coulton – “I Crush Everything”
• Comic: Lewis Black
• Comic: Bill Hicks
• Comic: George Carlin
• YouTube: George Carlin Talks About “Stuff”
• Smithsonian: Teller Reveals His Secrets
• RPG: Toon

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