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Comedy: August 20, 2014 Issue [#6465]

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Comedy


 This week: Funny Trios
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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Hello fun readers, I am NaNoNette Author Icon and a guest editor for this issue. So, don't expect this to be half as funny as the Comedy Newsletters from the trained professionals. Here we go.


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Funny Trios


Odd numbers lead to odd results. Funny results.


When writing a comedy with three characters, the easiest way to go is to assign basic behaviors to each character.

Your basic comic trio is made up of:

One with bizarre ideas.
One who believes the bizarre ideas are indeed logical ideas.
One who sees the train wreck in the making, but never attempts to change the course of events.

The leader of the group will think himself the smartest. He will give orders that invariably end in something bad happening. This is based in the leader being out of touch with reality. He might also truly have no idea what to do or how to proceed, but is unable to let go of the leadership role and therefore gives useless or dangerous orders that jeopardize the whole group.

The first mate is really just a dumb fool who will follow the leader no matter if his ideas make sense or not. While the first mate might be the one driving the car, steering the ship, or piloting the plane and (in theory) able to avert catastrophe, he won't do it because he believes in the leader's plan.

Completing the trio we have the one that is aware of their situation. He might not be particular intelligent, but he will usually have enough oversight to see that the leader's plan as well as the harebrained execution by the first mate are going to end in disaster. This lone sane character will argue with the first mate, even try to talk sense into the leader, but won't do anything to change the situation. In a movie, this passive character might look right at the audience and sigh or shrug his shoulders.



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Ask & Answer

In response to my last newsletter "Funny Duos" Open in new Window., I received the following responses.

LJPC - the tortoise Author Icon wrote: Hi Giselle! What an eventful arrival. *Shock* I bet your brother, his sons, and your kids won't forget that adventure anytime soon. I'm sure you all had a great time visiting - once you reached your destination! *Wink*
~ Laura

The destination after that was a restaurant. Once there's food involved things usually end up working out just fine. *Bigsmile*

Quick-Quill Author Icon wrote: I lived in Los Angleles as a child. We drove from Reseda to downtown Vermont and Pico to church at least 4 times a week. So when friends were invited to our house for Sunday dinner my father asked if I could guide them home. "SURE!" But riding in a car and driving every turn is a different story. I got us to the right freeway and then got lost. I took us to the doughnut shop on Sepulveda Blvd. They had to call Dad from a pay phone (it had to have been early '60's) to get the directions home. We all had a good laugh and a good dinner.

Mmmmh! Yes. Dinner makes up for everything!

blunderbuss wrote: Hi Weltmeister! Thank you for the newsletter story and it made me laugh OK. I wonder how you kept your cool? Hope you all had a good time together in the end.
My sister still has a problem with left and right. For a number of years (right through childhood and into teens) she wore an unobtrusive band on her right wrist. She has no sense of direction. If we go to a big shopping mall, she will always come out of a store and turn the wrong way - back the way we came! I just turn her round by the shoulders, without words and direct her to the next place.

Wow. That is intense. Could it be that she is left-handed but your parents (possibly inadvertently) forced her to be right-handed? I've heard that before that people who are forced to use their weaker side can end up confused.

BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author Icon wrote: Comedy always shows up. For some good ones, try Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". You'll be laughing out of your seat within the first ten minutes. "Werewolf Invasion" Open in new Window.

Isn't that a zombie thing? I might give it a try. I'm not too much into zombies.




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