Comments on: Your Simple Guide To Being Funny 3: How To Write A Joke https://gainweightjournal.com/your-simple-guide-to-being-funny-3-how-to-write-a-joke/ Ancient Secrets To Learning More, Making Better Decisions, And Future-Proofing Your Life Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Peter https://gainweightjournal.com/your-simple-guide-to-being-funny-3-how-to-write-a-joke/#comment-20868 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:09:39 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=7122#comment-20868 In reply to Phil Sweet.

Thanks for your kind words! 🙂 and also for for pointing out the type – it’s fixed now!

Actually I plan to continue this series at some point. I started writing a post on how to use these things in everyday conversation, but have abandoned it for the moment (I often start a post and then don’t finish it up, as usually these posts take a long time to write up and I usually either lack the time or my interests move to a different subject).

]]> By: Phil Sweet https://gainweightjournal.com/your-simple-guide-to-being-funny-3-how-to-write-a-joke/#comment-20857 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:23:34 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=7122#comment-20857 Just today I discovered “Your Simple Guide to Being Funny”. Where have you been all my life (or at least the last eight years that I’ve been trying to do standup comedy)? Your advice is clear, comprehensive, savvy, articulate, obviously experience based, understandable and, most importantly actionable.

I would like to humbly point out what seems to be a typo. You say in part 3, “Edgar E. Willis (author of “How to be funny on purpose”) states that every joke has what is called an expressed idea and an inferred idea. The EXPRESSED idea is what the joke teller says in an explicit form, while the EXPRESSED idea is the idea that the listeners should get out of what he is saying. ” Shouldn’t the last part be “while the INFERRED idea is the idea that the listeners should get out of what he is saying.”?

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