The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How To Say Something Funny About Anything pdfdrive com

Question: Could you use this method without the aim of being surreal?
Answer: You could indeed. For example, when I did Democracy with a class, a
student described the British Houses of Parliament as ‘a place where people go
and argue about what to do.’
And  another  student  said  ‘I  call  that  home,’  which  got  a  big  laugh
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student was playing off the unusual way we are describing things, using it as a
set-up as we do in other joke writing methods.
To  do  it  this  way,  write  out  your  answers  to  the  surrealist  inquisition,  have  a
break  and  then  study  the  lines  the  way  you  would  study  a  newspaper  or
magazine  looking  for  jokes.  The  difference  being  that  these  should  be  way  out
there wacky ways of looking at things which should help bring home those lines.

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Summary
Surrealist comedy is often about looking at things from unusual angles, use the
question sheet to take your thinking to weird and wonderful places.
Why not try it to find new jokes about hackneyed subjects?

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