EXERCISE ONE: (page 67 of Comedy Writing Step by Step)

Ready to Exercise? Turn your brain cells on and get those pens ready, we're exercising our funny muscles.

1. Collect 50 jokes that we like.

2. Type or Print the jokes on paper and analyze them.


3. List what makes them funny and what form they take Ie. Are they word jokes? Do they create a funny image? Or both?

Here, we will learn the style and form of some great jokes, understand our comedy tastes and generate our own style, get inspired and have a nice reference.