Humour is supposed to create hilarity or amusement either in conversation or in a comedy show.
Some strategies are needed to deliver successful jokes. This research intends to recommend
sequential organization as a strategy in doing stand-up comedy by analyzing a video that showed
Jimmy O Young solo performance, a Chinese descent who has American citizenship. By using
qualitative method this research is intended to answer two research questions. The first is which
sequential organization proposed by Scarpetta & Spagnolli (2009) do fit Jimmy O Young stand up
performance. And the second is how does he perform them in his stand-up performance. The results
shows that Jimmy O Young fits all sequential organizations proposed by Scarpetta & Spagnolli
(2009), and he performs his show very successfully by using informal registers, use his family and
personal life experiencies as topic jokes, and always refers punchline to himself, rather than referring
to the audience.