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writing comedy

  • 16-06-2009 5:56pm
    #1
    MrMatisse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭


    Hey,
    Im just wondering has anyone got any tips on how to write comedy/satire? trying it out on a blog ( See signature below) but could do with some tips.


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  • #2
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Easy formulae for scriptwriters:

    Man climbs Tree.
    Man gets hit with rocks when he climbs tree.
    Man climbs out of tree.


  • #3
    Morzadec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,952 ✭✭✭Morzadec


    Role reversal is an old favourite of comedy writers. Can still appear fresh and funny when done right though.


  • #4
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Really-Stressed wrote: »
    Hey,
    Im just wondering has anyone got any tips on how to write comedy/satire?

    Yeah - Make it funny! :D:P:cool:


  • #5
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I tried to read that but as some form of anti-Ross O Carroll Kelly I just couldn't get passed the third or fourth line. It's just not by bag...neither is the Ross OCK stuff tbh.

    I wrote a fictional blog for a character in a sitcom i'm writing - to give the character some padding - http://montyspass.blogspot.com/

    I'm not saying it's hilarious or anything but my idea of comedy is real life...

    Try using real English words and see if you can be funny without the scangerisms


  • #6
    Deliverance
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    Really-Stressed wrote: »
    Hey,
    Im just wondering has anyone got any tips on how to write comedy/satire? trying it out on a blog ( See signature below) but could do with some tips.
    Why did the chicken cross the road?


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  • #7
    Deliverance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Deliverance


    Really-Stressed wrote: »
    Hey,
    Im just wondering has anyone got any tips on how to write comedy/satire? trying it out on a blog ( See signature below) but could do with some tips.

    Why did the chicken cross the road?

    Just speak your mind, if your mind is ridiculous enough then it will qualify as comedy. I would ask who's bloody chicken is that anyway? It shoudn't have been left out on the road in the first place.

    Which came first the splattered chicken or the scrambled egg? Yum scrambled eggs. A great breakfast provided by a knocked down chicken that dropped an egg at the moment of impact;)


  • #8
    MrMatisse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭MrMatisse


    cheers all


  • #9
    Richy165
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Richy165


    Just do what you feel is funny. If it's funny then it's funny, if it's not then maybe think about writing drama


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