Writing Funny......

[Kenshin]

I think a worldwide moratorium should be placed on any new videogame-related comics.

It's an overdone genre.

[jonas]

Everything is only as over-done as you make it seem.

[Drewbacca]

Well we're not married to doing strictly gaming, we also do strips about movies and things that happen to us, so we're alright. BTW, we update tomorrow for anybody who's interested.

[Rumpy]

Ripped from another thread, http://dmiller.shackspace.com/GIJOE/ perfect example of swearing being funny.

[arjue]

Swearing can be totally funny. Look at Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Almost every joke relies on Jay swearing, yet it still works.


In Australia, we have this TV show called "the panel", which is basically 6 Comedians sitting around a table talking about shit. The other night, they were saying that you have to train your comic ability, otherwise you'll lose your funniness. If you want to see an example of this, see Maddox's first article ever and compare it to his latest. So basically, if you keep trying to be funny, you'll get better.




personally, I like offbeat humour the most, like Kidnemos Comet 7 and another favorite of mine, white ninja comics.

[Drewbacca]

I didn't like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back that much. I thought it was very bland and relied on swearing too much.

But then again, that is what their characters do, I guess.

[Drewbacca]

I just wanted to thank any and everyone who has been visiting and liking our comic. We're #300 on top webcomics at the moment (out of 1100 or so) and we've only been open a month or so. Good stuff!

[Mzo]

Try swearing. Try anything to make that comic funny, or just stop.

[Tracer]

Calvin & Hobbes never had a swear in it, not just because of its media either. You got the impression that Calvin would (in one stip it is shown that he'd like to know some swear words which I found even funnier given his advanced vernacular), but vocabulary was always his strong suit. Swearing would have been counter to his character of useing sopisitcated language to express what could be juvenille. This doesn't work for everyone though. There's no rule. It's all based on the characters you're useing. Calvin & Hobbes would have never been considered great had (even if allowed) swearing been a part of it, even if infrequently. That's not the fault of swearing, it's just not made for that character or the strip.

Yours on the other hand, are two teenage - early 20's gamers. Swearing would not seem out of place... and if delivered dryly swearing could make such character funnier =/

No one, at the end of the day, can tell you how to be funnier - you either are or are not. Station made some seriously good recommendation. I suggest you look into them seriously.

The "Fruit Fucker 2000" PA strip reminds me of well used swearing. "Drink my juice! It's fucking nutritious" If someone could find that and post it you could see how, in it's context, it is hilarious.

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...&stc=1&thumb=1

Not to toot my own horn but sometimes it IS funny. Like the Fruit Fucker 2K thing, the use of swearing in a product name or in an advertisement is funny because that never happens. That could be "Don't Steal My Tiles" and would be less funny I think. Likewise:

http://www.boomspeed.com/spiff/albertdrip.jpg

wouldn't be funny if it just said "dripdry = dummy lol."

the parts that make that humorous are the 'dipshit' and "lol" because the juxtaposition of Albert Einstien with the phrase as well as haveing seemed to have written "lol" is absurd.

[Tommy Tallarico]

Swearing has no bearing on humor either way. You're either funny, or you aren't. That's it.

Then there is the rarely-appreciated all-out lunacy technique as shown in my short, short story "Trout on the Bar Stool, Flounder in the Pretzel Bowl. Use with caution.

Trout on the bar stool: Hey douchebag, did you ever get that lawnmower of yours working?

Flounder in the pretzel bowl: No.

Trout on the bar stool: That's a shame, pigfucker. That was always my favorite lawnmower. Some lawnmowers you can push around every single weekend for an entire summer, and by the time winter rolls around there is not one single lawnmower memory lingering in your head. But that lawnmower was different. I haven't even seen it since I borrowed it from you over that Labor Day weekend 15 years ago, and I still think about it every day. Heck, I didn't even mow the lawn with it. My wife and I just used it to create 4 little rectangular sections of matted down carpet fibers on our living room rug. Who would have thought it's wheels would have been so perfect for that? Oh yeah, and did I mention that you should eat my ass?

Flounder in the pretzel bowl: I've always loved the matted down carpet fibers in your house. And eating your ass.

Trout on the bar stool: Yup, that was one special lawnmower. Die.

Flounder in the pretzel bowl: Ummm.... now that I think about it, I've never owned a lawnmower before. Jesus I fucking suck.

Trout on the bar stool: I did think it was weird that a flounder would own a lawnmower. I probably don't own a carpet, either. I guess fish get pretty delusional when they've been sitting out of water as long as we have. How long have I been on this bar stool anyway? My balls would be killing me if they weren't inside my fucking body.

Flounder in the pretzel bowl: About an hour.

Trout on the bar stool: God I fucking hate you.. *dies*

Flounder in the pretzel bowl: *dies*

The End

See? You can lace that with "fucks" and it wouldn't be the least bit funny. Well, maybe just a bit...