I'm just trying to think of everything you can do with this.

• They attack the comic with projectiles
  
• The guards fire a warning shot after too insulting a joke: then tell him to keep going
  
• The comic's physicality... I would do it just enough to be threatening but meagre enough to be vulnerable.
  
• The comic should somehow knock someone the fuck out during his routine, but it has to be in a way you're not expecting.
  
• The comic is your adrenaline junkie fun at all costs kind of guy
  
• Someone has a snake: it becomes a part of the act
  

Is this the first time you've workshopped this?

Indeed.

Funny premise IMO.


Someone being tazed is always good for a laugh

Maybe add a snippet where the comic tells a politically incorrect/anti-woke joke and gets an inexplicable boo from the prison audience - comic is REALLY???

Quoted from eldave1 Someone being tazed is always good for a laugh

"Don't tase me, bro!"

Quoted from Nomad "Don't tase me, bro!"

exactly

For giggles, i typed your parameters into the AI ChatGPT and asked it to write a scene. Here's what it spit back out:

The comedian stepped out onto the prison yard, adrenaline pumping as he surveyed the rough crowd of inmates. He had always thrived on the energy of dangerous audiences, and this prison was no exception.

The inmates jeered and shouted insults as he took the stage, but the comedian didn't let it phase him. He launched into his routine, pushing the boundaries with jokes about the prison and its inhabitants.

Suddenly, projectiles began to fly at him from all directions - apples, oranges, even a plastic fork. The comedian dodged and weaved, never missing a beat in his routine.

The guards stepped in, firing a warning shot into the air to quell the unrest. But the comedian was undeterred. He shouted out an even more insulting joke, and the inmates roared with laughter.

Just then, a snake slithered out from under the stage and onto the comedian's shoulder. The comedian didn't miss a beat, incorporating the snake into his act as he made it dance and perform tricks.

The inmates were in hysterics, and the guards couldn't help but chuckle at the unexpected turn of events. The comedian wrapped up his routine with a flourish, knocking out one of the inmates with a clever punchline.

As he stepped off the stage, the comedian couldn't help but feel a rush of adrenaline. He had pushed the limits, and it had paid off. He couldn't wait to do it all again.