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

Problem: If I don’t get a joke straight away I find myself giving up.
Solution:  Lots  of  people  feel  like  this.  For  an  experienced  joke  writer  who
spends at least an hour a day writing, it doesn’t matter so much if you spend 10
minutes bashing one subject against another and there isn’t a joke there. But for
a new joke writer, it’s heart-breaking. I included the ideas that didn’t work when
I wrote up the class example to illustrate that they don’t all work out and that it’s
important  to  keep  going.  Try  and  think  of  yourself  as  an  intrepid  joke-
prospector: we know there’s joke gold there in that river, and we’ve got to sieve
through  some  earth  to  find  it.  Each  time  you  bash  an  association  against  the
other  subject,  that’s  a  little  shake  of  your  sieve,  and,  if  you  keep  sieving,  there
will be gold in your pan.