This chapter reframes stand-up as a practice of attunement and flow. Working with Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of “the refrain” (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, University of Minnesota Press, 1987), it presents humour—and, by extension, comic persona—as a rhythmic and relational process. In the Women’s Comedy Workshop, participants improvise first and write later, learning to notice recurring gestures, tones and habits (refrains) through which a comic persona begins to cohere. Surfing names this embodied pedagogy, which produces temporary “territories” or “milieus” in which different versions of the self become possible. Through specific examples from comedy workshops, the chapter argues that this approach not only diversifies performance styles but cultivates resilience and confidence beyond the stage. By shifting focus from punchlines to patterns, Surfing offers a feminist, processual account of how humour comes into being—and how it can remake everyday life.