Humorous Thought for the Day – How I Write Funny Lines on a Daily Basis
Imagine a web site where you go on a daily basis to see a humorous thought for the day. Better yet, what if that site delivers the humorous thought for the day to your email?
And what if instead of providing stale, you’ve-heard-it-a-thousand-times-before humor, that site provided fresh, baked-daily humor created on-site in their in-store ovens?
Well … that’s the project I’ve taken on.
And it’s turning out to be quite the challenge to keep up with baking all those daily loaves of laughs.
So how do you go about creating a thought for the day that’s humorous without having to be a professional comic?
Here are some tips:
1. Think about the types of things in your everyday life that you find unusual, ridiculous, hard-to-understand, silly or embarrassing.
2. Come up with a way to express one of these things in a way that leads the mind in one direction. Then, suddenly shift direction with the final part. This is the setup/punchline structure of humor.
3. For a given idea, generate as many setup/punchline...