Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor

Published: Jan. 11, 2010, 5:07 p.m.

b'Welcome to Writing Excuses Season 4, featuring new, shorter episode titles! Also, if you don\'t count the bonus episodes or the Parsec Award Acceptance Speech, this is our 100th Episode!
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\\nBrandon kicks this off by asking "What does Howard do that\'s funny?" and then by categorizing the sorts of things he finds Howard doing. Obviously this puts no pressure whatsoever on Howard to be funny during the podcast. Which is good, because he really wasn\'t, cold medicine notwithstanding. Again, we manage talk about humor without being funny.
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\\nWe manage to cover character-based humor, physical humor, and non-sequitur, brushing alongside cognitive humor and exaggeration as we go, but hey... we only had 15 minutes to work with. Oh, and we ran over by 4 minutes and fifty-seven seconds.
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\\nWriting Prompt: Write something funny using non-sequiturs and cold medicine.
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