forum Writing comedy!

Started June 14, 2018 by @Twitchy

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Anyone got any tips on writing comedy? Not specifically stories, but dialogue and moments. Just a comedy forum, go for it with whatever you want if it's relevant.

What kind of audience is it?

Baah, I'd say young adult for me, but if you have any tips that'd be awesome. Sorry for not replying quicker btw.

Only reason I'm asking besides general growth, is that I have a very charismatic male character, and my story is pretty dark. It has a lot of lows at the moment and needs more comedy to give the reader a reason to want to see them live.

Oh it's fine, but ummm… is the comedy like where he makes a dark subject and turns it into a funny moment, like dark jokes, or he is a cocky type of character?

I guess it depends who he's around. There's this horrible, egotistical narcissist that Alastair would insult, but that would be through savage jokes which I am struggling with haha, but besides that he's the type of person that would try to lighten a dark situation or hide his feelings behind jokes.

Maybe try them explaining the most serious thing in the book like it's not that important? To be honest, i've never written comedy so i'm not great at it.

David: "Alastair calm down everything is going to be okay."
Alastair: "Ah yes of course David! It's not like we are driving an old, broken down campervan to lands end, where we may or may not find your family, to swim with a baby, a toddler, two kids, a bunch of teens, at least four middle aged, stuck up, one really fucking annoying (while pointing at Samuel) deuch-snozzle, and an old lady. No offence Miss Laverton, I know you'll still outlive us all."
Mickie: "Alastair enough."
Alastair: "Oh! Come on! I forgot about the giant machine, decapitating, poison gas leaking spiders that have been following us and trying to kill us all this time!"
Max: "They have more than six legs so… I mean they're not spiders."
Alastair slowly turns to Max, bending over and squinting his eyes slightly as he forcefully whispers: "Really?"

I get it but I don't think it works well with my plot, I need to put some light hearted things in it though cause it's just dark at the moment.