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"Talking about humor is the least funny thing you can do." \u2014Howard Tayler
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\nYou have been warned! and with that out of the way...
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\nWhat is the driving force that gets readers to turn pages in a book that is primarily a work of humor? More importantly, how do we as writers get that driver into our books? We cover this, and provide some starting points for writers seeking to improve their humor writing, along with a bunch of neat techniques, and (as apparent from the liner notes) a long example for deconstruction.
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\nCredits: This episode was recorded by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson.\xa0
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\nLiner Notes:\xa0here are the lyrics we cited from\xa0"Love is Strange" (Galavant). We've added superscript numbers from the Rule of Three exercise.
\n\xb9Love is strange,
\nAnd sometimes kind of gross\xb9
\nIt's embarrassingly gassy\xb2
\nAnd it leaves its dirty underwear
\nIn piles around the place\xb3
\n\xb2Love is rude, it has a sort of smell\xb9
\nAnd it thinks that you don't notice\xb2
\nAnd it blurts out things
\nThat make you want to smack its stupid face\xb3
\n\xb3And it's awkward and confusing\xb9
\nIt annoys you half to death\xb2
\nThen it grins that dopey grin
\nAnd you can't catch your breath\xb3
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