How Do You Write Jokes Based on News and Current Events?

There are formulas that work

I get this question a lot, since I was owner-editor of The Onion for decades. My question back to you is, why would you want to? That market is glutted.

Don’t make it even harder for yourself to break into doing comedy by competing in such a crowded space. Come up with a different format for jokes.

This is what Jay Katsir did. He wrote jokes for kids on …