Comedy Writing Articles
Joe’s articles about writing tips, late-night TV, and the craft of creating jokes.
Joe’s articles about writing tips, late-night TV, and the craft of creating jokes.
Say you want to write a funny caption for this cartoon, which was the subject of Caption Contest #447 in The New Yorker. You write…
That’s an example of a joke in a Desk Piece, a type of short-form comedy that’s popular on many comedy/talk shows. A Desk Piece is…
What makes people laugh? Scholars and theologians have been trying to answer that question since the dawn of comedy. Now Peter McGraw has a theory, the benign…
Some news items are easier to write multiple jokes about than others. Monologue writers like those news items because cranking out several jokes about the…
There are formulas for writing jokes. Experienced joke writers go through a systematic process to turn something like a news item into a sentence or…