Often the best humour doesn’t have to be invented it just needs to be observed and packaged for the reader. Observe and curate your comedy.Įveryday life is full of funny stuff. Here are a few ideas… 9 Ways To Bring The Funny In Your Fiction 1. You may think that you aren’t naturally a funny writer, but in fact there are lots of things you can do to inject more amusement into your words. But along with talent and inspiration, craft and persistence play a massive part in any successful comic writer’s work. It sometimes seems to be one of life’s great unfairnesses that some people are just naturally funnier than others. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.’ White put it, ‘Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. (I told you about the groans.)Īnyway, today I’m only writing about humour so I don’t have to be funny (as I’ve just demonstrated). Sample joke: Why are Greeks such fun people? Because they have a great sense of hummus.

The judges said I deserved to win because ‘Mr Brotzel got the biggest groans’.

I should perhaps also add that I was Asda Christmas cracker joke-writing champion in 2004.

My mum thought it was quite good, though she found the title a bit disgusting. I’ve written sketches for BBC comedies, written humorous features and columns for newspapers and magazines, and am the co-author of Kitten on a Fatberg, a new comic novel in email form about an eccentric writers’ group. I’m just someone who’s spent a lot of time trying to raise a smile with my writing. Here are a few practical thoughts about how to increase your humour quotient in your writing. We all like the idea of making people laugh with our stories. Our guest blogger shares nine ways to bring the funny in your fiction.

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