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A FUNNY THING
HAPPENED ON THE WAY
TO THE BLOG POST…
Pepper Your Writing with Pinches of Wit

2. Explaining The Joke
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3. Why Be Funny?
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4. Disarm
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5. Engage
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6. Just Be Funny
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Oh no you can‟t?
Oh yes you can!

7. One Size Of Funny Does Not Fit
All
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8. Find The Funny: look, it‟s right behind
you
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“Humour is about people.”
“Eighty percent of successful
humour writing is picking a
topic that is funny by its very
nature.”
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

9. Who Are These People
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?

10. Guess Who? It‟s…
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11. Be (A Version Of) Yourself
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12. Pets Can Be Funny Too
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13. What‟s So Funny
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?

14. Example: Kitchen Fail To Kitchen
Funny
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“I made biscuits. They were
crap.
The end.”
OR
“Fido quite liked
them, actually.”

15. Meet Fido‟s New Faves
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16. How To Make It Funny
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?

17. Words That Fit The Funny Bill
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“Never Say „Pull‟ When You Can
Say „Yank‟ “
Scott Adams, again

18. Wordplay: get those puns in the
oven
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Cashewal Sex anyone?
see: lentilbreakdown.blogspot.com/2013/03/cashewal-
sex_9041.html

19. Bigger, Better, Faster, Funnie
r
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Would I exaggerate?
Nah, never in a
thousand, million years…

20. Details, Details
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“The cake was hard”
Or
“Uncle Al‟s false teeth – minus
Uncle Al – sat embedded in the
12 firmly cemented layers. As
spongecakes go, it wasn‟t
Auntie May‟s finest hour.”

21. Comic Timing Is Everything
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Save the best line „til last.
Or don‟t.

22. Forms Of Funny
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23. You Can‟t Be Serious
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Well, yes you can.
Ask Manuel T. Waiter.

24. The Punchline
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Want to write funny?
Then read funny.
And borrow.