Comedy: December 03, 2008 Issue [#2750]
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

They say laughter is the best medicine. And what could be more medicinal than a good, old fashioned belly laugh. The kind that comes from deep inside, vibrating upwards until it reaches your lips. It's what keeps us young, and makes us feel alive.

My name is Darkin, and I’m your guest editor this week for the Comedy Newsletter.


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Letter from the editor

Funny or Not, Here I Come



Humor is as humor does. No wait, that's not right. Humor is in the eye, or perhaps the ear, of the beholder. Yes, that's better. What is funny to one person might not be funny to someone else. Comedy is subjective.

Lately, I find myself missing the humor of yesterday. Gone are the jokes that made you think and laugh out loud. Now-a-days, humor seems to be aimed at the disgusting. Bathroom humor, as my mother would call it, appears to have taken over the world of comedy.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good fart joke. But seriously, if your writing is nothing but fart jokes then it isn't comedy. It's a lesson in gassy foods. When I think of comedy, I think of the shows I used to watch when I was younger.

Think back to the great comedic people of our time. The Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Laugh-in, and I Love Lucy just to name a few. It wasn't the jokes that made those shows great; it was the delivery of the jokes that had audiences rolling in the aisles.

Who can forget Lucy and Ethel working at the candy factory, panicking as the conveyor belt moved faster while they desperately tried to hide the chocolates they weren't able to wrap.

Or Harpo Marx chasing after some skirt, tooting his horn. He never said a word during a movie, yet he had the ability to make audiences roar with laughter with just his expressions.

Or Artie Johnson getting the tar smacked out of him by Ruth Buzzie. It gave "sock-it-to-me" a whole new meaning.

Now those were funny shows. Even today, after I've seen them a million times, they can still make me laugh. That's how humor should be. Something that no matter how many times you read it, it can still make you laugh out loud.

If you want to write good comedy, then you need to know what good comedy is. Learn how to make people laugh without even trying to. In my opinion, the quickest way to know that is to watch the masters in action. Rent some old comedy movies, or TV shows. See how the masters did it, and soon you'll be in the right frame of mind to write some wonderfully funny scenes.

Thank you for taking the time to read. Happy Writing!

darkin


Editor's Picks

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