 Comedy: July 23, 2025 Issue [#13252] |
This week: What's So Funny? Edited by: Legerdemain  
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This newsletter aims to help the Writing.com comedy author hone their craft and improve their skills. I'm a guest editor this week, so I hope to entertain and help my community engage with new ideas.
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What's So Funny?
If you're a fan of comedy, you know there are all kinds of types of humor. I Googled, I know.
AI came up with a pretty good list of types of humor.
 Observational humor: This type of humor draws amusement from everyday life situations and behaviors.
Slapstick: Focuses on physical comedy, exaggerated movements, and often involves silly or clumsy actions.
Wordplay/Puns: This humor relies on the clever manipulation of words, including puns, witty remarks, and double entendres. For instance, "I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough.".
Satire: Humor used to critique and expose societal flaws or political issues.
Self-deprecating: Involves making fun of oneself or one's flaws for comedic effect.
Dark Humor: This type of humor tackles sensitive or morbid topics, often using black comedy or irony to explore uncomfortable subjects.
Superiority Humor: Based on jokes where the audience feels superior to the subject of the joke, often at someone else's expense.
Incongruity Humor: A broad category that includes puns, satire, and anachronistic humor (juxtaposing the present with another time period), creating humor by placing unexpected or mismatched elements together.
Relief Humor: Humor that builds tension and then provides a release of that tension through the punchline, according to Psychology Today.
Deadpan: Delivered with a straight face and emotionless tone, often with a dry and witty element.
Farce: Utilizes absurd situations and exaggerated characters to create comedic effect.
Affiliative Humor: Focuses on shared experiences and common ground to build camaraderie and connections.
Ironic Humor: Employs irony and sarcasm to create humor by saying the opposite of what is meant, often for critical effect.
Surreal Humor: Based on absurd and illogical situations, often defying expectations and creating a sense of the bizarre
Long list, I know! However, I thought this might be a cool resource while you're writing and trying to decide just how the joke will deliver the information to the reader and maybe make them smile.
Obviously, Dark Humor might not get a chuckle, but rather make your reader squirm. I am a fan of the old-time movies and comedians, where self-deprecation made you laugh and didn't hurt anyone.
In all, there it is, a list for you to consider while creating your next story. Write On!
This month's question: What kind of humor do you like to use in your stories? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback! |
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Excerpt: "This is fake blood," Anastasia said. "I can tell."
Excerpt: On the night before Christmas, at the North Pole, one Elfenezer Spruce consulted his pocket watch for the sixth time in the last three minutes. "Where are they? What's the hold up?"
The disgruntled elf spent the last four years devising his revenge, a fate much worse than a lump of coal. "I should be wearing the mantle of Klaus, not that wannabe Kringle."
Excerpt: Alan squeezed by.
Doorframes. Office furniture. Tables in restaurants and knees in movie theaters, and pedestrians on sidewalks. In the vast world outside Alan's front door-- Alan was constantly squeezing by something.
Excerpt: Everything is more difficult with a new baby. Just finding time for a shower can be more than I can manage some days. And forget about doing anything more complicated than heating up a can of soup for dinner. I thought babies slept a lot and I’d suddenly have long chunks of free time in which to do the things I want to do.
Excerpt: Once, I wrestled three 20 foot alligators. It was a long and tough fight that went on for hours. Through my herculean strength and perseverance I defeated all 3 and thereby saved a gaggle of nuns and a school bus full of children. I only mention this because for a guy like me, that wrestled four 25 foot alligators, a single alligator just isn’t challenging. So true.
Excerpt: A humanoid robot approached, almost close enough to knock her over.
“Nature lover?” he asked cheerfully.
“Back off!”
Excerpt: "I'm so tired," my weariness told me as I rolled onto the linoleum floor from my cot. I laid my arms across the cot and drug myself up to kneel beside it. It occurred to me what a prayer-like attitude that was.
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This month's question: What kind of humor do you like to use in your stories? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Since I'm a guest editor, I don't have replies from previous newsletters, I'll ask another question: Do you rely on facial expression to impart a sense of humor in your characters?
Expressions are often linked to emotions like amusement, anger, awe, concentration, confusion, contempt, contentment, desire, disappointment, doubt, elation, interest, pain, sadness, surprise, and triumph. Some studies have focused on six basic emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise) and how they are expressed through facial muscle movements (action units). |
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