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What's the secret? How do you make sure something will be funny in print without the timing, body language, and facial expressions available on screen and on stage?

Please recommend any good reading on this subject.

>> No.12786512

I've never read anything funny except something that's just absurd

>> No.12786513

Abstaining gives me some whit. Balzac was right.

>> No.12786518

>>12786513
>whit
wit

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>>12786480
Brevity,surprise and generally opposite behavior(idk the word). Like when George Costanza did Opposite Day. Who does that? Completely ridiculous.

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>>12786513

>> No.12786567

>>12786480
I don’t think any 4chan humor whatsoever would fly irl.. it’s very niche and for the mentally ill...

>> No.12787887

>>12786525
jewish comedy is verboten fren

>> No.12788672

Talent

>> No.12788690

Depends on the target audience. If you want your humor to be sophisticated you should use grotesque, be ironic and even be surrealistic in order to produce humor based on the contrast. There are multiple analys available on ways how it works in the literature. Check out the Mrożek's works

>> No.12788704

>>12786558
>leonardo da vinci and michelangelo
Thought they were notorious bummers? Were they actually just homoromantic

>> No.12788715

>>12786513
>whit
>>12786518
>wit
Withdrawal

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>>12788704
>homoromantic

On /lit/ we call it "Platonic love"