Funny 101: Installment #1
by Welcome to Funny 101, I am Matt Kelly and I will be your professor. During this course I will be teaching you the basics of being funny. This week we will discuss humor and how you can apply it to your everyday eZabel experience.
Disclaimer: This column is not meant to be funny! It is being posted strictly to help improve the quality of the content on eZabel and for your education and enjoyment.
Know Your Audience
Wait! Don't hit that post button yet! The first thing to do when you are trying to write something funny is read what you just wrote. Does it make sense? If it does, most eZabelers probably won't understand that this comment was meant to arous a chuckle. On the other hand, if you're submitting an anecdote to Readers Digest and it's too off the wall, people probably won't understand your humor.
The key to this is you have to know what subject material apeals to your audience. Either way, it's always interesting when somebody throws a little unexpected twist into something they're sharing. In the case of the eZabel audience, you shouldn't have a hard time finding something funny to say because people are always talking about really stupid things. A rule of thumb for eZabel.com is "when in doubt, write something about danhill being lactose intolerant.
Emphasize the Right Words
When you are attempting to write something funny, it's important to remember that people won't always read things the way you mean them to be read. You can limit this problem by emphasizing the key words you use. You can do this by making your text bold, italic, underlined, or by making use of commas or the infamous "...".
Applying What We've Learned
That's probably enough lecturing for the first installment of Funny 101, so let's try to put it to use. Let's invent a scenario and say that you would like to tell the eZabel community in a few words, how the other day you were dragged into going to see the stupidest movie ever by some friends and how basically the whole night sucked.
Not Funny:
Ugh, yesterday Bob dragged me into seeing Tomb Raider 2. I knew I was going to hate it, but he promised it was good and convinced me to spend the 9 bucks to see it. Afterwards, we went to a smokey diner and the food was terrible!
Now let's see how good you are, make this into a funny story!
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dude! don't drag me into your lame jokes!
Anyway, here's my story
Ugh, yesterday Bob dragged me into seeing Matt's Hideous Moles come back from the Dermatologist! Part 2! . I knew I was going to hate it, but he promised it was good and convinced me to spend the 9 bucks to see it. It was truly vile. The worst part was how you realized that even if matt had one mole removed every two months, you would see them until 2027. Afterwards, we went to a smokey diner we were served by the HAIRIEST armed man i'd ever seen. And then, just as we were going outside, we bumped into Omega "The Greek Kid N'Play" Tweeter. Dude, that kid scares me like seeing Mike in the morning.
Now let's see how good you are, make this into a funny story!
So yesterday, The Funky Fresh dragged me to go see Tomb Raider 2, now we all know that the biggest reason guys went to that movie was cause of Angelina... soo, I was a bit confused being that matty poo is def playing for the pink team, but alas, I digress. Anyways, afterwards we went to this diner, and well, Hilldan was there and it took about 20 minutes for us to find dairy free food for this freak to eat!!!!
if rock supastar and skaorsk8 hadn't posted comments on this i would have deleted it. i was starting to realize how lame an idea it was. but hey, look's like they're having fun with it.
yo, please do not post "skaorsk8 and rock supastar having fun with it" in the same sentence.
they're not in the same sentence you milk allergic retard!
yea dan... duh, its same paragraph... silly goose
excellent application of today's lesson! with the "..." nice
Ugh, yesterday rock supastar dragged me into seeing Tizzomb Rizzaider 2. I knew I was going to hate it, but he promised it was good and convinced me to spend the 9 bucks to see it. ..... Afterwards, we went to a smokey diner and the food was terrible! So I punched the waiter in the face and ran away! (of course I left a sign that said "sorry my poopies" on the chair after I smeared poo all over the seat.) Then I punched rock supastar in the teeth and stole my 9 dollar back and went to see Glitter! I ordered a LARGE MILK!!! .....
cooooome onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.... i only found it funny because it used my material. jerk ! but it was funny. hahaah
Ugh, yesterday hilldan dragged me into seeing "I can't believe it's not cheese ... billy". I knew I was going to hate it, but he promised it would make me not so crazy about cheese and convinced me to spend the 50 cents to see it. Afterwards, we went to a Soys R Us and the food was terrible! no cheese at all! i wanted a refund. but i knew another reason why hilldan went there. cuz there was a buncha hot short chicks workin as waitresses there. i thought to myself 'man hilldan, you ladies man'. we left the diner and me and dan had a good time. then a meteor hit the diner.
that is SOOOOO not what happened!!
hahaha... this is great
Yak, yesterday Bob Marley drugged and dragged me into seeing Tomb Raider 2. I knew I was going to just love it because Bobby-boy promised it was good and conned me into spending the 9 bucks to see it. Afterwards, we went to a "smokey diner" as they're calling it these days and the food was wonderful !
Ugh, yesterday Bob dragged me by my hair to raid a few tombs, twice. He convinced me that the tombs would be full of amazing junk and stuff. So I asked him " what kinds of junk and stuff" and he looked at me with those puppy dog eyes and said " you silly goose!, the type of junk and stuff that people leave behind after they die" , So i said " aww i'm sorry i was a silly goose. i just didn't know"... so we just stared at each other for awhile.. but i knew.. I KNEW ! he couldn't be mad at me long. So he slowly walked towards me and embraced me. At that point i knew everything was going to be ok! . anyway i digress. point is.. I knew I was going to hate raiding tombs, however he promised it was good poopies and junk and stuff and convinced me to give HIM 9 bucks to massage him. What a great deal i thought. So i gleefully accepted. Afterwards, we went to smoke at a diner and what i thought was a cigarette really wasn't a cigarette at all. but it was more like a dog. it's tail was wiggling and stuff. i almost cried thinking that i was "this" ( gestures with fingers in a close proximity towards one another) close to smoking a dog. bob just looked at me and said " You silly goose ! " . i chuckled. and said " i know " he he he he . THE END.