/lit/ - Literature

>>4465722
>>4465728

/lit/ has got to be the most easily b8able board in history.

This is the real reason I can't stand the /pol/ infusion: you morons can't understand when someone is joking.

>>4350296

>>2653859
I know you're a pseudo-intellectual but fuck you're stupid.

>>2433226
>falling for this troll trolling trolls
>2012

Saw this discussion going on and thought it could use it's own thread. The topic is broad enough, and I'm really interested.

So, How does one write comedy, /lit/? I try, but I often come across as rude and condescending to my audience when I try to write humor.

Bare text is one of the hardest things to convey humor through. Visual and musical aid do wonders to stimulate a funnybone. How is it done? Is humor just the knowledge of a pre-existing comedic formula? Is it a subtle combination of self-consciousness and desperation? I actually prefer jokes with punchlines and concrete setups to convoluted or more subversive, situation humor.

How do you, personally, write comedy? Are you successful?

In addition, post the funniest thing you have read (no visual or audio accompaniment) and why.

One of the things that made me laugh and grin the most was probably The Importance of Being Earnest. Don't know why, maybe I'm just an unfunny person who likes witty assholes being smarmy all the time, but it amused me. That, and some of this shit by David Sedaris. Yeah, I'm that guy.

>>2143623

>>1718157