Humour without the Nasties

by Laura on March 4, 2009

in writing inspiration

From Jade Walker’s newslet­ter The Writ­ten Word:

“A writer hopes to sur­prise his read­ers now and then. If we agree about every­thing, then one of us is redun­dant. Of course, rig­or­ous truth­ful­ness is good, but that gets harder and harder to achieve. So I set­tle for being amus­ing.” — Gar­ri­son Keillor

Humour writ­ing has sev­eral sub­gen­res. Which you choose or end up writ­ing depends on your own per­son­al­ity and morals/ val­ues. I think it’s cheap and tak­ing the easy way out to pick on oth­ers. Not so dif­fer­ent for those who pick on them­selves. You are hurt­ing some­one either way. Can you write an arti­cle that’s funny but doesn’t take pot shots at any­one? It might be harder than you think.

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Patricia March 4, 2009 at

I’m with you on this. There is noth­ing funny about name-calling and belit­tling people.

RE Ausetkmt March 4, 2009 at

so does the snatch­ing of Chester the Jester, from humour­blog­gers head­quar­ters qual­ify ? those damn LOL can I haz more cheeze­burg­erz cats; are a hard bunch to pin down. they don’t talk; they refuse to rec­og­nize you; and they are just gen­er­ally known to be Sneaky..

so what about them ?

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