Humor is Not Pretty
We don’t need to know how the sausage is made as long as it has a good punchline.
We don’t need to know how the sausage is made as long as it has a good punchline
Humor is not easy.
Sometimes it’s rough on the humorist, too.
No longer can we tell a simple ***** joke. Jokes about *****s are off-limits, too. Self-deprecating humor makes your mom mad. You pretty much have to fall on your *** to be funny around here.
To keep from crying
To keep from crying myself, I have to distract myself, after I tell a joke.
The other day I was at a party.
“How about those *****?” I asked a group of the party-goers.
They each turned away from me as quickly as they could, but one at a time. They were all in a hurry to join other parallel conversations.
“What's wrong? That was funny!” I said to them…
“That was a funny joke,” I said to myself. “That wasn’t just old goober humor- that was FUNNY. What is the matter with these people?” I further asked myself.
“Oh look, something shiny,” I finally said to myself, seeing a bottle cap on the floor.
Research shows
Research shows lately that it takes 40% more work for the prep of a humor article than a serious scientific treatise.
And over 80% of them miss the mark and cause some unintended consequences by insulting an innocent group who just happen to have attorneys on retainer for such occurrences.
Therefore, this word of advice to new Medium writers…
Of the 79 useable tags and topics, there are none that are funny. The closest one is “satire” which must include the name of a former political figure named *****, to qualify.
Pick an easy subject like analytical geometry and calculus, or even analytical anthropomorphism in the latest Disney release. Just be analytical, not humorous.
Then when people don’t understand or appreciate your effort, they blame themselves and not you.
Thank you.
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