Comedy writer Alex Dobrenko explains how to be funny: Write what’s true. Explore the weird. Speak the subtext. Love the mistakes. Increase, hold and release tension.
My favorite book on laughter (not just humor, the attempt to elicit laughter, but laughter more broadly, in the sense of what it is and how it works) is by neuroscientist Robert Provine, who I met once at a Society for Neuroscience meeting in Miami Beach -- during a hurricane, if I remember correctly.
"Laughing is the gap between what’s true and what’s expected"
ahhhh dude omg this is so kind and humbling and frankly just very damn cool
My favorite book on laughter (not just humor, the attempt to elicit laughter, but laughter more broadly, in the sense of what it is and how it works) is by neuroscientist Robert Provine, who I met once at a Society for Neuroscience meeting in Miami Beach -- during a hurricane, if I remember correctly.
https://randallhayes.substack.com/p/april-showers-may-bring-giggles