Image via Wikipedia If you read Truth In Comedy, or my other posts that discuss the importance of truth, this may appear to be a contradiction, but it’s not. Think about when you were a kid and got in trouble for kicking your brother, and your defense was “But you told me not to hit [...]
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YHBT – You Had To Be There
Recently, Ettarose made a comment about the difficulty in making YHBT humor work later on, after the event. If you have ever ended a story with tears in your eyes from laughing, only to find a blank look from your audience.. and then claimed “you had to be there.” Then you understand her frustration. Most [...]
Odd Is In The Details
Image via Wikipedia Let’s get into detail about our obsession wish details. In Truth in Comedy we discussed how there has to be a germ of truth at the base of all comedy, otherwise it floats away like a kite without a string, or comes crashing to earth, either way the humor fails. Your audience [...]
