From the start, Second City stood in contrast to that approach: it emphasized an ensemble, not the individual performer; improvisation rather than a written routine; sketches instead of jokes; and intellectual rather than slapstick humor.
Louis C.K. is a subtle stage presence compared to, say, Sam Kinison, but that doesn't mean that he's not performing, and the non-verbal bits in his act are every bit as important as the written routine.
Izzard does not tell gags; he does not have a written "routine"; he rarely invades his own privacy for material; he does not attack the audience, or, conversely, try to "dig it up," as comedians say ("Who here is from... ?"). "I just want to fuck around, take the audience one way, then back up on it," he says, likening the madcap mosaic of mind which he delivers to channel surfing.
Which isn't to say that the written routine is anything short of superb: in one of the best moments, he laments the difficulty of parenting his seven-year-old daughter, noting that "she's headed for a great life unless I fuck it up" — which he does, of course, accidentally teaching her that one day the universe, which includes all the things that she loves, will cease to exist.
A standard P-E model [103] was optimized to data using a custom written routine following [104] to determine key parameters of photosynthesis, including the light utilization index, maximal photosynthesis (Pmax) and light saturation index (Ek) of the P-E curves as defined by Sakshaug et al. [105].
The main issues of the written routine 1. Basic personal hygiene policy, were: i) Wrist watches, rings and other jewellery not allowed to be worn in clinical work.
The appraisal of investments was decentralised and capital budgeting became a bottom-up process, standardised through written routines and supervised via a pre-approval control system.
Spike train analysis was performed using user written routines in MATLAB.
This analysis was performed on a personal computer with Axograph 4.9 software (Axon Instruments), using custom written routines.
The written routines were: 1. Basic personal hygiene policy.
Data was analyzed in Python 2.7 using custom written routines.
