"The way their stories have a beginning, a middle, a resolution — also known as a punchline — is the same as the way a comedian tells a story

Can you learn to be funny?

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2024-10-30 00:30:07

"The way their stories have a beginning, a middle, a resolution — also known as a punchline — is the same as the way a comedian tells a story.

"It's just that as we age, we tend to be driven by the ego and a need to impress. We lose the knack for being completely driven by the need to tell the story."

Rachel Berger has been a comedian for over three decades, and believes that regaining this instinct can be incredibly powerful.

Rachel Berger has been a comedian for 32 years and believes that regaining the instinct to be funny can be incredibly powerful. (Supplied: Rachel Berger )

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Rachel was just three or four when she first intuited that things in her family weren't quite right.

"The thing was that when my parents laughed, there was a palpable difference in the air. I could feel it. It was visceral. From a very young age, I knew that laughter was good. It literally changed the air."