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Comedy: April 15, 2015 Issue [#6929]

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 This week: Animals are not Funny
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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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
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About This Newsletter

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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Letter from the editor

Animals are not Funny


Just ask the NSA Agent who sued the government over having to watch too many cat videos.


Then again, I disagree with that agent. He should have asked for some dog videos if the cats were too much for him.

Watching vines and compilations of animals doing funny things, getting into (slapstick non-dangerous) danger, or having a guilty face over ripping up their care person's couch, is a good way to while away some hours just for fun. In your writing, you can use animals in many ways as a vehicle for comedy relief for a tense plot, or even have them carry the comedy.

Pets give us great fodder for situational comedy. Especially since we know their character and quirks, we can find many tidbits to infuse into our stories by building on those fun moments with the pet. In the USA, racoons are a perfect source for comedy. They have opposing thumbs, which makes them able to grab things, open things, climb on things, and be pretty much the ultimate urban terrorist since they eat anything from anywhere.

Depending on your location on Earth, you will have different animals that regularly create havoc in your neighborhood or in the nature areas around where you live. Include one or more of them in your plot. Have them show up once, give them a minor role, or go as far as using talking animals for the ultimate in animal-comedy.



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(This is 100% run by me NaNoNette and not by the site owners. All decisions are mine alone.)

Via the submission tool below, send me a funny situation involving an animal. It can be real or made up. The funnest submission will receive a merit badge of my choice and be published in my next Comedy Newsletter.

In response to my last newsletter "March 32nd" Open in new Window., I received the following responses:

Being Diane Author Icon wrote: Without laughter all the depressed people of the world would die especially me. Thanks for the wonderful newsletter where we can not only read other funny works but submit our own.
I suggest aa great older book which will make you laugh out loud. Why do you see the Buddha with his big belly and laughing uncontrollably. The book is: Cold Sassy Tree by Olivia Burns. In the meantime feast on my piece of work.
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