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How to Write Funny (mattmaroon.com)
16 points by drm237 on Jan 29, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Was that supposed to be insightful? Do bitter and arrogant count as cylinders of the blog post genre?


Your comment is not bitter, arrogant, or whatever? It's nice and helpful?


Where's a story down vote when you need one?


On Reddit. Apparently it has resulted in a much better signal/noise ratio ;-)


Touche.

Not that it solves the problem on this site though.


I dunno. I don't think this guy has seen enough xkcd comics. Most easily meet the 'bizarre' requirement. Quite a few, especially the ones with a 'love' theme are cruel and / or naughty. They often involve 'in-jokes' that you'd have to be a bit computer culture / scientifically inclined to get (either in the comic itself or the tooltip) that qualify as clever, and nearly all of them are clever in the sense presenting a common experience / situation of fans of the comic and presenting it in a way that all will find funny.


I enjoy most xkcd comics, but only find a few especially funny.


Oh no he dih-ent. Bustin on my man Randall...

And Jim Davis gets a pass??!

Where is the love?


I didn't learn anything out of that one.


Well, don't brag about that. You could have learned not to click Matt Maroon links, if you dislike his writing enough to complain.




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