Do you listen to interviews with comics before or after watching their specials?
I’ve started wondering whether hearing a comic explain their process first makes me watch the set more intelligently, or just makes me look for the things they’ve already told me are there. If you’re using interviews or podcasts to study stand-up, do you watch the special cold and listen afterwards, or hear the process first and then watch for the choices they describe? I suspect I learn more from doing it afterwards, but I’m also extremely capable of watching an hour of comedy and forgetting I was meant to be studying it.