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Episode 31| Three Fundamentals of Comedy Writing

How To Write Funny

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Amateur Comedy Writers Use Cliches

In order to produce work that's professional and gets people more interested in your comedic voice, you need original humor. An amateur comedy writer may not understand what the cliches are because they may not be that attuned to the comedy world or realize the power of cliches. As soon as you realize that a joke has been told before or a funny line or phrase has been used too much before, you've got to retire it. So for an amateur you have to be aware of what jokes are being told. You have to watch a lot of comedy, stand up movies, TV shows, YouTube videos, read a lot of comedies online,. etc. And just be aware of

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