How to Write Funny

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=329

by drm237 • 18 years ago

16 10 18 years ago

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noonespecial• 18 years ago

Oh no he dih-ent. Bustin on my man Randall...

And Jim Davis gets a pass??!

Where is the love?

jacobolus• 18 years ago

Was that supposed to be insightful? Do bitter and arrogant count as cylinders of the blog post genre?

curi4• 18 years ago

Your comment is not bitter, arrogant, or whatever? It's nice and helpful?

stillmotion• 18 years ago

I didn't learn anything out of that one.

curi4• 18 years ago

Well, don't brag about that. You could have learned not to click Matt Maroon links, if you dislike his writing enough to complain.

run4yourlives2• 18 years ago

Where's a story down vote when you need one?

curi4• 18 years ago

On Reddit. Apparently it has resulted in a much better signal/noise ratio ;-)

run4yourlives2• 18 years ago

Touche.

Not that it solves the problem on this site though.

oditogre• 18 years ago

I dunno. I don't think this guy has seen enough xkcd comics. Most easily meet the 'bizarre' requirement. Quite a few, especially the ones with a 'love' theme are cruel and / or naughty. They often involve 'in-jokes' that you'd have to be a bit computer culture / scientifically inclined to get (either in the comic itself or the tooltip) that qualify as clever, and nearly all of them are clever in the sense presenting a common experience / situation of fans of the comic and presenting it in a way that all will find funny.

curi4• 18 years ago

I enjoy most xkcd comics, but only find a few especially funny.

How to Write Funny

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