Writers' Room: Which of my comedy video ideas will have above-median performance?
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76%
Friend who took a long time in the bathroom
75%
Coaching my girlfriend to queue up match highlights from another room to avoid spoilers
71%
Spies when they accidentally bite the poison pill hidden in their tooth
69%
Sketchy human ATM
68%
Depression after a team I never heard of loses
66%
Whatever the next clip of me doing standup is
66%
Before Sunrise POV in record shop
59%
Remembering that PBR was a thing
59%
Gross side of owls delivering mail in the great hall
58%
A compilation of OpenAI employees interrupting ChatGPT (and potentially gradually fading to a scene from terminator)
58%
Demo of the new ChatGPT but it's way too flirty
56%
Candy addiction hotline
54%
Friend who thinks they're safety officer
53%
Slytherin doing the math
53%
Brainstorming how to become viral
51%
Cheap Airbnb tour
50%
American Express review
50%
Future Me
50%
Having a bone to pick with soccer players doing a “bow and arrow” celebration but letting go of the bow
50%
How it feels logging in with authenticator (shot in the style of dramatically diffusing a bomb)

I have started a small comedy channel, and have several more ideas for videos. Which ones will do well?

Videos will be posted on Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube Shorts. If after ~48 hours, the video

  • performs above my median views for two out of the three platforms

  • OR is my most viewed video on at least one platform

the choice for that market will resolve YES. Otherwise, that choice resolves NO.

I will only resolve N/A if I realize a video is never gonna happen.

~~Almost none of these ideas are self-explanatory, so consider this a draft market and enjoy betting with almost zero context.~~

~~I plan to return and at the very least explain each premise.~~

Update: I've added top-of-mind descriptions to all the ideas currently listed (and made a couple bets as I went through too).

I also hope to rate the complexity and difficulty of execution. If I've sketched out lines or gags, I'll try to include that. Some of these I have already filmed-- I could potentially share some of the raw footage. I might also add some of my standup videos and suggest jokes or timestamp ranges for betting. I could also add jokes that haven't been filmed yet to see if they're worth perfoming!

Here are the channels:
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@charliemocomedy
YouTube: Charlie Mo - YouTube
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charliemocomedy/reels/


update 10/24: Going to spend some time writing quick description/premises for things.

Some things to keep in mind when betting:

  • I like creating, writing, and performing comedy, but I have fairly limited experience putting together comedy video. If a premise looks like it might exceed my abilities, it might be worth either betting it down or assuming that I will try to simplify it to a level more commensurate to my editing skills.

  • I think my priority for what to actually create from this list will be based on some informal combination of "likelihood of success" / perceived effort to create.

Descriptions (in no particular order)

  • Glass of Thrones letdown

    • Like some of my existing conent, this came to me walking around.

    • Belfast has a series of very prominent stained glass window art dedicated to Game of Thrones. However, when I was there, there was one that was noticeably empty. The punchline is that the empty one represents seasons 9 and 10 where the writers tied everything together.

    • I've already filmed all of this and it came out ok.

    • Need to edit and add subtitles

  • Glass of thrones letdown (polished)

    • same as above except I also shot some more detailed clips of the windows.

    • It would take more work to add that footage in as edits, but it might result in more views!

  • Spies when they accidentally bite the poison pill hidden in their tooth

    • fairly self explanatory

    • fellah laughing with friends, biting wrong, grabbing his cheek, and it all setting in

  • Friend who took to long in the bathroom

    • Friend gets escalatingly defensive about how long they took in the bathroom

    • Have a lot of gags for this already

    • Difficulty 6/10 because it's editing and two characters

  • Depression after a team I never heard of loses

    • probably a series of videos modeled off of lonely Pablo Escobar meme

    • need to tighten up text

  • Rembering that PBR was a thing

    • very simple-- probably just a "showerthoughts" style, staring out the window, brow furrows.

    • need to revist the text overlay of this video

    • maybe emphasize how it feels like that never happened.

  • Every time I try to order a beer

    • Have some scraps of dialog for this

    • Generally about how intimidated I get when trying to order a beer at a bar

    • Difficulty seems variable, but let's assume I'm just going to try to "green screen" this

  • American Express review

    • Shot in the style of a serious personal finance channel

    • Devolves into the downsides of this card being the awkard moments when you have to ask if they take Amex or you don't ask and it doesn't work.

    • Escalate by alternating between pros and increasingly absurd cons

  • Gross side of owls delivering mail in the great hall

    • Clip great hall owl delivery scene from first HP movie

    • cut to our me sitting down to my lunch at the great hall and it just getting covered in bird poop.

    • bulls eye into drink a nice touch

    • pros: Harry Potter content seems highly spreadable

    • cons: messy

  • Friend who thinks they're safety officer

    • (or, friend who's anxiety manifests itself as concern for safety)-- this is a bit too heady though.

    • Already shot several clips of this.

      • Just me scrutinizing Fire hydrant instructions and calling the front desk about fire department about their procedures

    • Want a few more clips of me checking that everyone has their seatbelt on.

  • Satire of sales ads

    • or really-- satire of Hustle influencers

    • I also already shot this.

    • Footage is selfie video of a hustle bro character walking around and obnoxiously lecturing his audience as we gradually reveal that he has hopelessly lost track of where his car is in a sprawling parking garage

  • Brainstorming how to become viral

    • Shot from the laptop webcam chatting with another unseen interlocutor

    • Already have a bunch of gags from the perspective of someone completely clueless about how social media works

  • Dreamy nonesnical philosophy shot

    • Visuals: stock footage of clouds or something similarly pensive

    • audio: Sounds deep but is actually a sort of stream of consciousness rambling that never loses its confidence

  • Before Sunrise POV in record shop

    • Clip of Before Sunrise record shot scene

    • She looks up at him

    • Use 0.5 wide angle lens close up to make a really silly shot of what Ethan Hawke looked like up close in that scene

  • Sketchy human ATM

    • Character navigates to a fairly, somewhat sketch isolated outdoor area, and is confused as they check their phone

    • Sketchy character there with a sign on them that says ATM.

    • Our protagonist goes along with it.

    • Ideas

      • Maybe the ATM guy takes a call in the middle of it while he has the other guys card.

      • "Yeah it didn't work"

      • Could give in the wrong currency

  • NFC Translation

    • Somewhat techincal but fun

    • Shot in the style of a "tech hacks" youtube channel

      • Showing off Apple Shortcuts + NFC tokens to help them tap their phone on household items and learn how to say them in Spanish (or Portuguese).

      • Mentions that his girlfriend helped with the translation

      • Only, when our protagonist taps his phone, it's obvious to everone but him that the translations are just sassy mistranslations designed to make him look dumb.

  • Future Me

    • Already written and shot and 80% edited. It was my first attempt at this stuff in a while and has a lot of edits.

    • Premise: My future self is dropped into the room with me, only, he's only from four days in the future and they realize there's not much for them to discuss.

    • I can share the script of this if anyone asks

    • I missed ONE somewhat key line in shooting and am still working on editing around that.

  • Slytherin doing the math.

    • This also came to me during HP1 movie.

    • At the end, Dumbledore pulls some wild points changes and basically fixes the House Cup race for Gryffindor

    • Showing this scene from the perspective of a Slytherin who is keeping track of the math during Dumbledore's shenanigans and assuring that the Slytherins are all good. Until they're not...

  • Candy addiction hotline

    • Scrutinizing a candy wrapper, our curious protagonist stumbles upon a candy addiction hotline (a la gambling addiction) and calls the number

    • Going to have to let this one steep. Right now it's just a premise.

    • Ideas

      • could go in a whimsical Willy-Wonka direction

  • Sketchy Airbnb tour

    • host giving tour and you gradually realizes you went too low budget

    • Gags

      • "that bedroom is out of Oder"

      • Stuff falling off

      • Strange rude goldbergian process for getting a door open

      • "Here's the kitchen/laundry room" pointing to sink in bathroom

      • Doing a double take at a random person on the couch the host doesn't even mention

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