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Fashion and the Fisherman.
Fashion and The Fisherman.
The one thing I have always enjoyed about fishing is that you rarely see anyone wearing a tie.
I suppose there is the occasional urban lunchtime warrior who might race from his cubicle to the Hudson river to get a...
Funny T-shirts - Give the Gift of Laughter
It used to be that knowing a good joke or one-liner was the way
of giving the gift of laughter. It still is. But, for those of
us who have a hard time remembering jokes or coming up with our
own, we have turned to wearing funny t-shirts in order...
Hippo Rage - a humorous look at stress and anger today
(text of a mini-keynote speech by David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy, which brought down the house in Gatineau, Quebec, April 21, 2002) Has anybody here ever been stuck in traffic for a frustratingly long time? Put up your hand if you have. Oooh!...
IN A BUSY WORLD WE STILL NEED TO TAKE TIME TO LAUGH
In many ways, the American home faces the danger of becoming a vanishing institution. Along with its extinction, the family unit as we know it is in danger. Children are not growing up in homes anymore. They are growing up in terminals. In...
THE TWISTED-TONGUE TOURNAMENT
Copyright The Quipping Queen 2005 THE TWISTED-TONGUE TOURNAMENT -- Or, Calling All Weird-Word Whizbangers! -- By Adrian Air-of-Sleet, a pleasure-seeking, mandolin-playing, maroon-hairpiece sort of fellow who enjoys Italian weddings, spelling...
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How to write funny ideas and make easy money.
Avoid Cliches and you miss the joke!
"Avoid cliches" - that's what would-be writers are always being
warned. But in comedy writing,CLICHES offer a rich source of
humor. In fact many cliches can be easily and directly used as
cartoon captions. As you know a cliche is an overused expression
that has lost its freshness and becomes predictable. These
expressions are so commonplace, people can relate to and
understand them easily. Another reason why cliches are popularly
used in humor is because of their predictability. In comedy, the
element of surprise is an important and easiest stimulant for
laughter, so humorists use cliches to lead the audience along
the line of predictability, and they make a sudden surprise
change at the last moment and let them fall in the heap of
laughter!
Most humor is based on word-play. Stand-ups, TV sit-coms,
sketches and cartoon-strips, all employed this technique.
Sometimes, words by can be even funny by themselves. Just try
saying words like "fart", "geezer" or "hippoppotamus". You can
hear the "funny" lilt in these words.
By mispronouncing or mispelling or even misunderstanding
of
words can be funny too. Many a times it is because of the double
meanings and the double entendre that create the humor. So you
see the power of words in comedy writing. For words can conjure
up funny images and produce a good joke.
Cliches like metaphors, oxymorons, similes, puns, bromides,
jargons, malaprops, popular titles of novels , songs and movies
and aphorisms; are good fodder for humor.
Another popular technique using words is taking a figure of
speech at its literal meaning. Or some call it the simple truth.
I'm sure you have heard of the "call-me-a-taxi" joke. One reason
why we find at times children are full of spontaneous pure
innocent humor is because they speak the truth.
Cliches like pun may be the lowest fom of wit, but to humorists
is on the top of their list. They are easily understood and also
because of their wide association, they can generate loads of
funny ideas. So, never avoid cliches, or you will miss the joke!
About the author:
A freelancer from Malaysia who dabbles in both visual and
performing art. Read more articles and free tips at:
http://funny-ideas.blogspot.com/
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