Interviews · 13 June 2014
Milton Jones How I remember jokes
Milton Jones interviewed by Kevin Durham, 13 June 2014. 2m 29s on tape.
In this Milton Jones Interview he talks about how he remembers jokes and comes up with jokes on the spot. If you liked this Milton Jones interview then please leave us a comment in the comment box below. Milton Jones Is Frustrated With Atheist Comedians Milton Jones "Mock The Week Is Like An Exam" Milton Jones "Not swearing & being a safe comedian" Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you.
What's on the tape
A transcript, made by machine from the audio and tidied up. It gets names and the odd word wrong, so treat it as a way to find the bit you want rather than as a quotation. Every timestamp jumps to that moment in the video.
0:01 seconds. You probably got like a 10 maybe 15 second reaction off the top of or two or two. So, um, in like 1 minute, that's I think that's that's four jokes a minute. So, if you had like say an 80 minute set, that's 320 jokes. How the hell do you remember all of that? Well, for start sometimes I don't. I leave stuff out, but uh I tend to remember them in subject chunks. So, I put all my romance jokes together. I put all my school jokes together and after I've done it three or four times, then I have a sense of what I might be leaving out or need to put in next. Just practice pretty. But sometimes usually I come off stage going, "Oh, forgot that Which is annoying.
0:45 But I mean, what's the actual process of you remembering? Do you like turn the jokes into images or do you just go over them like line by line over and over and over and drill them into? Yeah, basically. So before doing a show, I I'd look at a list of 300 words and try and remember the order. So if I gave you a subject right now, could you just roll off a joke off the top of your head? Is your memory that Depends what the subject is, but maybe uh let's say granddad going to hospital. Here's the book. Yeah. Yeah. Anything about granddads is Uhhuh. About a month before he died, my grandmother covered my grandfather's back with lard and after that he went downhill very quickly. That's that one. There we go. That's at least 20 years old.
1:28 Yeah. Uh fish and chips. About fish and chips or food. I remember my uncle used to take me swimming. He used to climb on his back, go out into the ocean, get a really good look at the fish because years before he was attacked by a shark and he'd been fitted with a glass bottom. Well, you're good. Let me see if my cameraman can come up with something. Any suggestions on what Milton could do as a joke? Quick subject. Um, vinegar. That's hard. Vinegar. Yeah, that's really hard. Um, condiments. Oh, yeah. Awkward, isn't it?
2:13 When you end up in prison cuz you're in a cafeteria and an old lady was rumaging through the condiments. She said, "Assault, please." Bum bum. You're like the new Bob Monk House. That's what you are.
