Tag: political humor
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Joke About Statehood for Washington DC
The joke: Today the House voted to grant statehood to Washington DC. They also picked a Washington DC state bird. It has a blue left wing, a red right wing, and it just flies around in circles. How I wrote it: I gravitated to this news item because the handle “Washington DC” promised me the…
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Writing Political Comedy
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 boo you instead of laughing? A miscalculated political joke can split your audience in two. Political topics are very tempting for a comedy writer because an audience is likely to…