comedy is different things for different people

you know i try hard to make stuff come out as funny when i make my comics, or when conversing with people in  general. but this is not to say i am a funny person. to be quite honest in the years that i slowly learned how to use a computer, other than using it the way a normal teenage male would, i found that the internet has become my vast resource for jokes.

let's face it, we weren't (but not always) the ones who came up with our punchlines.

we take a few things here and there, take notes and play around with things in our heads. it's inspiration that keeps you thinking about how you want to do your writing.

finding difficulty coming up with your own shtick, it's not uncommon to look at things from someplace else and incorporating them as your models. then you go ask yourself; how can i put my twist to this, or how can i make this even better?

you don't have to lock yourself in your room all the time and hook up to the internet as your guide as you write this epic script of gastronomical, tear-jerking, heartbeat-skipping humor. sometimes conversations with friends help, sometimes the newspaper helps, sometimes battling a 300-foot tall lizard in your giant mechanized robo-warrior with four other teenagers with attitude helps you fight evil and fly off into the horizon victorious and confident that you saved the world from impending doom yet again.


and so my dear children, the lesson is this: when darkness is a rubber-skinned amalgamation of a turkey and a blowdryer with evil minions, you can resolve this in two words-- It's Morphin' Time!

wait... that's three words. four if you split it's to it is

wait... that's-- that's not what i wanted you to learn from all this.

okay... um...

comedy is all about 10% idea and 90% audience, at least for me.

it's important that you consider who you're directing your punchline to, you need to reach out to them on an equal plane so they don't have an i can't relate with you moment.

you have a funny idea but you need to ask yourself...

is it funny for you or is it just me?


you can't gouge how much you and your audience share the same wavelength all the time so at times it's guesswork. but thank GOD i do comics for transformers-oriented audiences. sometimes franchise related in-jokes work best with these types.

jAaM!!!!!11!!1

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but if you want to play it safe, it's a good bet to use common jokes and humor and tweaking your characters to carry them out. slapstick is nigh-universal. stand-up is also one. story-oriented comedy needs to be strong from the get-go in order for the audience to pick up interest, and needs to be interesting all throughout in order to let new readers in without having them backtrack a bit for them to get it, and fourth wall humor is the easiest.




to each his/her own.


now excuse me while i let myself dry out from all this babbling.