laughs, but bits like this couldn’t land successfully

without the pause before his discovery.

A major benefit that comedy in video on demand

holds over any sort of live content is the ability to

make edits and perfect timing. The raw footage of

the above bit would include a lengthy pause as the

character approaches the bulletin board filled with

either silence or idle vamping, during which the

joke would have lost momentum and any comedic

payoff would have been lost forever. By cutting out

the dead space, Neebs Gaming ensured that a joke

with an inherently funny concept landed with its

full potential.

EDITING GIVES YOU TOOLS TO TELL

FUNNIER JOKES

Editing for humor can include more than just

adjustments to timing, though. Dramatic zooms to

emphasize on-screen elements the player missed,

freezeframes backed with a record scratch, ominous

music stings, and more can all help boost a video to

its maximum funny levels.

In any online video content, or even traditional

media to an extent, there are certain editing tech-

niques that can be used to ensure that jokes land.

GAMING

How Neebs Gaming edits videos to make them funnier (and how you can, too)

of their success can be credited to
their hilarious editing.

TIMING IS EVERYTHING
Without proper timing, even
the funniest jokes will fall flat. If
you rush a punchline, you aren’t
giving your audience time to
process the setup, but if you take
too long of a pause, anything you
say is going to feel awkward and
disconnected. Timing jokes with
pin-point precision is absolutely
required if you want to pull off
your bit. In their Ark Survival
series, the guys at Neebs set up a
bit with a great concept: com-
memorating lost dinosaurs (and
sandwiches) on a town message
board. In the video “5 T. Rex vs
Alpha T. Rex!!! – Ark Survival
Evolved”, one character calls
another over to see the new ad-
dition that is essentially a callout
post directed at the latter. The
reveal and reaction pull great

The pause between becoming aware of the sign and reacting to it is

crucial to the success of the bit.

TIMING

JOKES WITH

PIN-POINT

PRECISION IS

ABSOLUTELY

REQUIRED.

“