Crafting a Scene: Standup in a Prison Colony

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

 

I'm curious, what is your story about, overall?

By the way, the Workshop is a place for critique, not story development.

 

Oh, bugger. Sorry! I meant to put this in scriptwriting. Mods, pls delete!

 

I suggest researching how prisons are run. Many have regs about wearing guns when mixing with prisoners, and I can't imagine them allowing a snake as a pet.

 

You're not familiar with the Australian prison colony of yore.