Comedy Writing

Hi everyone! We are now in the second half of the 1st quarter, so that means we have a new project ahead of us. Our assignment is to make a comedic monologue, a great sense of humor is needed for this project because we aren't allowed to copy off of somebody else's joke. The first reason why humor is an important character trait is because making other people laugh can brighten that person's day. Secondly, having humor could get you a job, I mean just look at Jerry Seinfeld he makes billions just from having a great sense of humor. Another reason why having humor is a great character trait is that you can build relationships better, no one wants to be friends with somebody that is no fun! People want to be able to laugh with their friends.

There are many ways to writing a humorous narrative, although I highly recommend researching around comedy before starting to write a humorous narrative/story. Here are five tips to writing a comedic story. The first tip is to research, researching before writing my humorous narrative definitely helped me through my writers block. Just looking up how to write a comedic monologue on wiki how could help you get some kind of idea! Another tip for writing a humorous narrative is to know that everybody has a different sense of humor, so if you don't make everybody in the audience don't beat yourself up about it. The third tip to writing a humorous narrative is to concentrate, focus and you can pretty much make anything funny. Don't wrack your brain over it, you will come up with something eventually. The fourth tip for writing a hilarious story that I have for you is to hang loose and to try to relax while presenting your story. I am shy and I don't necessarily like to get in front of a camera or be in front of a big crowd but you have to learn to overcome these challenges when doing a project like this. The last tip I have for you is add expression to your details, adding humor to something will definitely help enrich your story. It's all about the adjectives!

For this project I decided to write a comedic narrative, I am including two of my friends that happen to be in the same GT class as me in my story. Tessa, Emma, and I have died for some reason and had gone up to heaven and God told us not to touch the pink cloud. Well anyways we all go wandering off for some reason or another and somehow we all end up touching the pink cloud, and somehow we all come back with a really ugly looking dude with us... except for the last person that wanders off (Tessa) comes back with a really good looking guy that explains that he is the one who touched the pink cloud. This joke is funny because everyone comes back with ugly guys except for the last and at the end one of us comes back with a really good looking guy that had touched the pink cloud, pretty much saying that Tessa is ugly. My joke is slightly offensive, so I made sure that it was okay with Tessa before I used her in that way.