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How is Writing Comedy the Fastest Way to Complete and Utter Failure?
I was listening to some comedy the other day and I came across this video (podcast interview on YouTube). There was a guy in the interview who was talking about comedy.
This guy was from Kentucky and he had a bit of that Southern accent that made me think, "Damn! I didn't know they had the internet in the hollar.
He said, "Writing comedy is the fastest way to complete failure." As you might imagine, that got my attention!
The Best Way to Write a Comedy Act if You’re an Absolute Newbie
The other technique is to sit down and write jokes. I prefer this technique because I don't have to wait for the coincidence of the moment with friends or a funny situation to just happen to 'occur' to me. I can just sit down and generate material.
I do this by utilizing about 23 different approaches, but for the sake of this blog post, I will just write about two approaches. Here they are...