Discover the expert in you.
Discover the expert in you.
Writers are at a disadvantage when it comes to humor. Unlike television, film and stand-up comedians, comedic writers lack the ability to make the audience laugh with visuals and sounds such as facial expressions and voice inflections. Encouraging the audience to unwillingly decorate their carpets with whatever they just drank requires a subtle touch from the writer; a touch that incorporates the characters, setting and the relationship between them.
The hardest thing to write is humor. It’s such a subjective thing; what’s funny to one person might not be funny to some one else. And yet we are all conditioned to laugh at something we find funny or just plain silly and absurd. Whether it is an outright comedy or a serious, literary novel, humor can address real situations, find the absurdity in modern life or tell us something about the human experience that is universally acknowledged. It’ll also get your readers chuckling. Here are some tips you can use to bring the funny to your fiction.
Daniel Lawrence Whitney, better known to the public as Larry the Cable Guy, is one of the hottest blue-collar comedians. His humor keeps his adult audience rolling with laughter. If you want to tell jokes like Larry the Cable Guy, let's "Git-R-Done."
