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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

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Engage

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Just Be Funny

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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

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“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

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?

Guess Who? It’s…

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Be (A Version Of) Yourself

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Pets Can Be Funny Too

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What’s So Funny

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?

Example: Kitchen Fail To Kitchen Funny

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“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

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?

Words That Fit The Funny Bill

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

Scott Adams, again

Wordplay: get those puns in the oven

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Cashewal Sex anyone?

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

Bigger, Better, Faster, Funnier

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Would I exaggerate?

Nah, never in a thousand, million years…

Details, Details

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“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

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Save the best line ‘til last.

Or don’t.

Forms Of Funny

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You Can’t Be Serious

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

The Punchline

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Want to write funny?

Then read funny.

And borrow.