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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE BLOG

POST…Pepper Your Writing with Pinches of Wit

Explaining The Joke


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Why Be Funny?

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Disarm


Engage


Just Be Funny


Oh no you can’t?

Oh yes you can!

One Size Of Funny Does Not Fit All


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Find The Funny: look, it’s right behind you


“Humour is about people.”

“Eighty percent of successful humour writing is picking a topic that is

funny by its very nature.”

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

Who Are These People


?

Guess Who? It’s…


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Be (A Version Of) Yourself


Pets Can Be Funny Too


What’s So Funny


?

Example: Kitchen Fail To Kitchen Funny


“I made biscuits. They were crap. The end.”

OR“Fido quite liked them,

actually.”

Meet Fido’s New Faves


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How To Make It Funny


?

Words That Fit The Funny Bill


“Never Say ‘Pull’ When You Can Say ‘Yank’ “

Scott Adams, again

Wordplay: get those puns in the oven


Cashewal Sex anyone?

see: lentilbreakdown.blogspot.com/2013/03/cashewal-sex_9041.html

Bigger, Better, Faster, Funnier


Would I exaggerate?

Nah, never in a thousand, million years…

Details, Details


“The cake was hard”

Or

“Uncle Al’s false teeth – minus Uncle Al – sat

embedded in the 12 firmly cemented layers. As

sponge cakes go, it wasn’t Auntie May’s finest hour.”

Comic Timing Is Everything


Save the best line ‘til last.

Or don’t.

Forms Of Funny


You Can’t Be Serious


Well, yes you can. Ask Manuel T. Waiter.

The Punchline


Want to write funny?

Then read funny.

And borrow.

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