@rayjlau
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@rayjlau ON TOUR- NJ 5/7, Honolulu 5/20, San Antonio TX 5/29-30, Boston 6/6-7, Vancouver 6/11-6/13, Austin TX 6/19-6/20 SUMMER TOUR- Chandler AZ, Nashville, Sacramento, Uncasville, CT, Dallas TX FALL TOUR- San Francisco Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore Eugene OR, Portland OR, Raleigh NC St Louis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles #comedy #standup #crowdwork #cancanwonderland #minigolf
Performance
Video #25540 · Speaker address
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A stand-up comedian asks his audience for a recommendation on what to do in their town. After an audience member suggests 'Can Can Wonderland,' the comedian embarks on a humorous, frustrating quest to understand what it is, roasting the audience as they provide increasingly childish descriptions like mini-golf, an arcade, and milkshakes.
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What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook · 55%
I get sent on a wild goose chase
Verbal hook · 40%
I got one day left here tomorrow.
Visual hook · 5%
A comedian on a dimly lit stage with a red curtain background, holding a microphone, immediately signaling a stand-up comedy performance.
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The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
An open-ended question posed directly to an external party (the audience), inviting them to provide the core subject matter for the interaction.
Payoff
The Cyclical Takedown: The creator calls back to the initial suggestion and the group's endorsement of it, highlighting the absurdity or hypocrisy of their collective choice now that the mundane reality is fully known.
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The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Wild Goose Chase Framework
Creating comedy by inviting a vague suggestion from an external source, deliberately misinterpreting it to an absurd extreme, and then contrasting that with the mundane reality to mock the source's taste.
The Open Invitation
The creator asks for a recommendation, suggestion, or piece of information, ceding control of the topic to an outside source.
The Cryptic Suggestion
The source provides an answer that is ambiguous, strange, or lacks necessary context, creating an information gap and a central mystery.
The Group Consensus
The creator establishes that this strange suggestion is widely supported, making the entire group complicit in the absurdity that follows.
The Failed Clarification
The creator asks for more detail, but the source's explanation remains unhelpful and vague, deepening the mystery and increasing comedic tension.
The Absurd Hypothesis
The creator fills the information gap with a wild, extreme, and comically incorrect assumption about the suggestion's true nature.
The Underwhelming Reveal
The source corrects the assumption with a surprisingly mundane and anticlimactic truth, creating a stark comedic contrast that serves as the initial punchline.
The Desperate Upsell
The source attempts to make the mundane reality sound more exciting by adding a series of equally underwhelming or juvenile details, providing more material for ridicule.
The Accusatory Reframe
The creator uses the source's own underwhelming details to mock their taste and judgment, often by adopting a persona that highlights the absurdity (e.g., a child).
ON TOUR- NJ 5/7, Honolulu 5/20, San Antonio TX 5/29-30, Boston 6/6-7, Vancouver 6/11-6/13, Austin TX 6/19-6/20 SUMMER TOUR- Chandler AZ, Nashville, Sacramento, Uncasville, CT, Dallas TX FALL TOUR- San Francisco Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore Eugene OR, Portland OR, Raleigh NC St Louis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles #comedy #standup #crowdwork #cancanwonderland #minigolf
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I get sent on a wild goose chase
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I GOT ONE DAY LEFT HERE TOMORROW
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ANYTHING I SHOULD DO IN PARTICULAR?
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CAN CAN WONDERLAND
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WHAT DID YOU SAY?
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CAN CAN WONDERLAND?
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YEAH
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CAN CAN WONDERLAND
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OK THIS GUY GOES
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YEAH
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AM I WRONG?
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NO YOU'RE NOT WRONG I GUESS
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NOBODY DISAGREED
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WHO DISAGREES WITH CAN CAN WONDERLAND?
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OKAY
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AS YOUR LEADER
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THIS IS YOUR GUY
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HUH?
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WHAT'S CAN CAN WONDERLAND SIR?
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UH CAN CAN WONDERLAND IS LOVELY
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IT'S A SPOT YOU GOT TO GO TO
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RIGHT
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AND BACK TO THE FIRST QUESTION I ASKED?
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CAUSE I GO WHAT IS IT?
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IT'S A S-X DUNGEON
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IT'S LOVELY
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THEY WRAP YOU UP
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THEY TIE YOU UP
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THEY DO WHAT THEY WANT WITH YOU
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THEY KICK YOU DOWN THE CAN CAN
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CANDYLANE?
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IT'S MINI GOLF?
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IT'S NOT JUST MINI GOLF
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YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL
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IT'S LIKE AN ARCADE BAR
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LIKE MINI GOLF AREA
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OKAY
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ARCADE BAR MINI GOLF AREA
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YEAH
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THIS IS LIKE YOUR PRIDE AND JOY OF TOWN?
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IT'S VINTAGE
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IT'S VINTAGE?
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YOU GUYS KEEP ADDING NEW WORDS TO SELL IT
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OKAY
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IS IT LIKE A FIRST DATE SPOT
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YEAH
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THEY HAVE LIKE MILKSHAKE STUFF TOO
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MILKSHAKES?
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WOW
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AND THEN ARE YOU GUYS 12?
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QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU ARE YOU 12?
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there's milkshakes there
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they got golf and they play games and Pac man
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you gotta go
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they got lollipops in there you can suck them too
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mom can we please go to can can wonderland
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it's been so long since I've been at can can wonderland
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YES YOU GOT TO GO CAN CAN WONDERLAND
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YOU PEOPLE
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WHO THINK WHO THINKS THEY'RE A MASSIVE FAN OF CAN CAN WONDERLAND?
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YOU GUYS
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YOU JUST SENT ME THERE 10 MINUTES AGO
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MEHHHHHH
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YOU SENT ME THERE
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WHAT IF I SPENT MY LAST DAY THERE?
Got one day left here tomorrow. Anything I should do in particular? Can Can Wonderland. What did you say? Can Can Wonderland. Can Can Wonderland? Yeah. Can Can Wonderland. People are nodding. Can Can Wonderland. Okay. This guy goes Am I wrong? No. You're not wrong, I guess. Nobody disagreed. Who disagrees with KK Wonderland? Okay. You've appointed this as your leader. This is your guy, What's KK Wonderland, sir? KK Wonderland is lovely. It's it's it's that's why you gotta go to it. Right. And then bad to the first question that I asked. I was like, what is it? It's a sex dungeon. It's lovely. They wrap you up. They tie you up. They do what they want with you. They kick you down the can can. What is it? Is it it a is it a is it a, Candyland? Mini golf. It's mini golf? It's not just mini golf. You guys don't know me at all. Mini golf. It's like an arcade bar, like, mini golf area. Okay. Arcade bad, mini golf area. Yeah. This is, like, your pride and joy of town? Vintage. It's vintage? You guys keep adding new words to to sell it. Mini good. Okay. And then is it, like, a first date spot for people to go to? Yeah. Yeah. They have, like, milkshakes stuff too. Milkshakes? Yeah. Wow. Are and and then just quick question. Are you guys 12? Best question for you. Are you 12? There's milkshakes there. They've got golf and they play games in Pac Man. Oh, you gotta go. They've got lollipops in there. You can shock them too. Oh, mom, can we please go to Candy Cane Wonderland? Please, it's been so long since I got a Candy Cane Wonderland. Everybody, yes. You gotta go to CanCan Wonderland. You people. Who do you think who rank who thinks they are a massive fan of CanCan Wonderland? You guys, you just sent me there ten minutes ago. This girl goes, you sent me there. What if I spent my last day there?