A word on humour

Step 3 Being 'funny'

So you can be sarcastic but that's not the end of it, you can always tell when someones being funny in person or on the phone, you can hear their voice but were I to start writing like some kind of crazed jackaninny on an opiate induced hallucinatory adventure you may indeed have to stand back and say 'good god sir I do believe that vile lunatic is about to expose himself before attempting to escape via the really rather inane elevatrix device under the stairs', see what happened there, I was being 'funny' without telling jokes, just using silly language and were I there I would probably use a silly English accent and move about a bit more than usual.

In writing however you only have words and the tone of words, this means that you do have to be a little more explicit with it all and maybe go a little bit closer to over the top to make it make sense, or thereby lack of...

It's being funny by being incredulous, making people laugh through through either statements that are comically unlikely or just very very un-ordinary... God that sounds so bloody boring I may actually finish a 20 deck by the end of this Goodhart. yet again being 'funny' using circumstances, it being odd because I'm writing about being funny and finding it very boring and because it's annoying me...

The art of surprise tends to make something funny also (a 20 deck ? when I looked that up, I got sites on plans for adding to one's home :-).
Surprise, as illustrated in the main photo on this step, will be funny to those that get it immediately. Those that miss it, and need explanation will not be "surprised" and will probably issue a groan in response to finally understanding ( I must give Weissensteinburg credit for pointing this one out to me; which I found incredibly funny).

Comments

[leecopp10]

Anyone cane be funny, just some people have a nack for it and some dont, i found metions how you can become from the loner in the group to the comedian of the group, have a look. Click here

[tiga_cff]

Thanks for torturing yourself for the sake of our amusement! And no, that wasn't sarcasm. I was taught that "comedy is the art of the unexpected," which is why I no longer find it amusing that my girlfriend doesn't laugh at any of my jokes. No, wait. That's why knock-knock jokes aren't funny after age 12. Except this one: Knock, knock. Who's there? Flash. Flash who? Flash Gordon! Wouldn't that be funny if he actually showed up at your door? ha ha!

[Danielfish]

And if we subscribe to dark humour - Knock Knock Who's there? Not Madeleine.

[killerjackalope]

It may not have been long enough my wee brother loves - Whats worse than letting michael jackson take yur kids on holiday? -... - Letting them go with the Mcaans It's awful, mainly because it's evil in so very many ways but hey, whatever we all have to laugh, eventually I'll hit the dirty jokes section, that one will take me a lot longer to compose and for goodhart and I to agree on, dirty jokes are more internet friendly, but a bit edgy for instructables.

[Saturn V]

Dirty jokes, in my opinion, are some of the most hilarious, but should be shared with caution.

[killerjackalope]

I would be deeply perturbed if flash gordon turned up at my door... No really though girls just have trouble with 'man jokes' they are always, too childish, too silly, too obscene, too indicitive of horrible trauma... Try making a joke about shoes, she might enjoy that, but then you'd have to think of a nice shoe joke.

[cd41]

i think alot of people who like this page (like me) and comment it are apreently fans of monty pthon humor where the explnation or manyt comments at all are long drawn out silly-word-filled peices of language that will never come up in any conversation they will ever have, unless they actually find a guy who worked on Monty Python comedy. And just to clear it up most comedy like the comedy in the first paragraph is said in one or two breaths and quickly with alittle funny accent or in a funyn voice or style or dialect, or by adding more and more and more things to it

[killerjackalope]

Don't forget the use of strange words and superlatives... I think the whole monty python thing's funny, it's still good today despite being so old, partly because it spawned massive amounts of similar comedy...