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Scott Dikkers founded the world\u2019s first humor website,\xa0TheOnion.com, in 1996. A few years earlier he helped found the original Onion newspaper. He\u2019s served as The Onion\u2019s owner and editor-in-chief, on and off, for much of the last quarter century.\xa0 He led\xa0The Onion\u2019s rise from small, unknown college humor publication to internationally respected comedy brand.\xa0 He is also a New York Times best seller, and Peabody Award winner.\xa0

He documented his process for creating humor in his book,\xa0How to Write Funny, and the second in the series,\xa0How to Write Funnier, and next on the way, How to Write Funniest, which are the basis of the\xa0Writing with The Onion\xa0program he created and teaches at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Scott offers other courses and free resources for comedy writers on the\xa0How to Write Funny\xa0website.

He first dispels the myth that funny is innate an then we dive into how to be funny, starting with how to just dip our toes in the water.\xa0 He teaches us how to recover from a failed joke, how to joke about subjects that might seem taboo, how to work humor into our office visits and lectures.\xa0 Apparently, stand-up comics are jealous of our mundane topics.\xa0 He has a system of 11 funny filters, or types of humor of which all jokes are made, and which are the most and least appropriate for physicians. If you take nothing else away from this, the one rule to follow for comedy is to afflict the comfortable while comforting the afflicted.\xa0 Afflicting the comfortable might be out of our comfort zones, but comforting the afflicted is what we do!

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