Writing Jokes That Make You Look Smart
Impossible, Right? No, Easy!
Jokes, for the most part, should be big and dumb. Audiences rarely double over in laughter from smart jokes.
In the comedy world, this is a conundrum. Most comedy writers want to appear smart, so they want to write smart, complicated jokes. Audiences, on the other hand, just want to see someone fall down.
It’s an audiences-are-from-Mars, comedy-writers-a…
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