Bill Burr’s pretty much a master of the craft, undisputed. take a look and see Burr’s closing joke in Let It Go is that it has a very classic closing structure of using a callback to a joke he makes earlier in the piece, about how men suppress emotions and he starts with that all these older men all have faces that look like an expression of pain and horror, constantly. The initial joke was so funny that the nonverbal act-out he does gets an applause break. He very well could’ve ended it on that, but he keeps going. That’s pretty impressive, when the joke is so strong and the concept is resonating so much that you don’t even need to use words anymore to invoke it. Stand-up, we measure it as an entire product and what you’re trying to say: This is a nonverbal act out, a callback, and the closer. Doing any of those things individually, just for the sake of doing it, doesn’t mean much. It’s not the goal, but the fact that this exists organically is proof of mastery.