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.
By themselves, AI language models can’t write good, original jokes. But an AI system can if it’s explicitly told how to structure a joke. Enter…
Aspiring writers often hear the poor advice of the Greek philosopher Epictetus, who is quoted as saying, “If you wish to be a writer, write.“…
An early step in selling a movie script you’ve written is often to send a brief synopsis of the script to a reader. If the…
A roast is a series of insulting jokes about a particular person, the roastee. You write each roast joke using the same techniques that you’d…
Writing political jokes is trickier than writing jokes about non-political topics. How do you write political comedy when a large segment of your audience might…