Simple Jokes

How to Make Good Funny Jokes   by Alisha North

Writers are always advised, “Avoid Cliches”. But cliches prove to be a highly desired and one of the ,ost successful strategies in writing comedies. Cliches are quite often potential sources from where humour is derived. Some popular cliches can be directly made as captions accompanying cartoons. One can define a cliche as a predictable popular expression that has lost its freshness on account of overuse. Cliches are rampant in daily conversations amidst common people. Therefore it is very easy to understand them and relate them to various situations in life.

Element of suspense is a vital and the most important stimulant of laughter in the arena of comedy. Humorists make use of cliche to lead the listeners through what is familiar and predictable to something that is unexpected and surprising. This ends up creating a heap of laughter. There are some good examples to understand the use of cliche in jokes.

Word play is one of the most popularly established strategies for comedies. Cartoon strips, sketches, stand-ups and TV sit-coms very extensively make use of word-play technique. In fact, there are some words which are inherently funny. For instance, just the saying of words like “geezer”, “fart” or “hippopotamus” can evoke a spurt of laughter.

Yet another type of comic effect can be created by mispelling, misunderstanding or mispronouncing words. In such techniques, the laughter is created by double meanings and the double entendre. In this way, manipulating words is a powerful technique in comedy writing. During many instances, words conjure up images that look funny and result in creating a good joke.

Humour can be crafted from various cliche tools including oxymorons, puns, similes, metaphors, bromides, jargons, aphorisms and malaprops in addition to some of the famous tiles of movies, songs and novels.

There is yet another popular word play technique in creating jokes known as taking the literal meaning of a figure of speech. This can also be called as the simple truth or the plain truth. For example, “call-me-a-taxi” joke is quite popular. Often we find children funny since they speak the truth and end up creating pure innocent humour.

Pun is one another type of cliché that can rather bring about a lower form of wit. Several humorists keep this technique on top of their list. Pun is easily understood and on account of its popular usage and wide association. Puns can give rise to lots of funny ideas. Therefore, unlike writers, humorists never look down upon clichés and make use of them innovatively and extensively to achieve humour.

About the Author

Alisha is a reputed writer about jokes and humor. His articles on Rajnikanth Jokes are famous among readers.
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A Simple Case of Pseudo-Incest $2.97 John Decker is a cultural warrior, a man with a clear sense of right and wrong, and it is his life’s ambition to clean up the moral sewers in this country as a PI PI, or pseudo-incest private investigator. John has been hired by the government to infiltrate a group of pseudo-incest aficionados who have created the group “Pseudo-Incestaholics Anonymous” to share and spread their fantasies both online and in person. It is his responsibility to find the “magic keywords” that this group is using to make their kinks so popular. Once he has found the keywords, he can turn them over to the Bureau that has hired him, allowing them to program the fetish out of existence through a set of computer instructions known only as “The Algorithm.” But John is not alone on his mission. He also has a partner, Jane, an ex-stripper turned detective. Jane has other ideas about whether or not works of fiction are harmful, and she’s prepared to use everything she remembers from her previous life as a sex worker to bring him around to her point of view.This story is a little bit over 5000 words long. It contains two sex scenes, and many jokes, some of which I hope you find funny. It is intended for mature audiences only.Excerpt:”Wow!” the nervous man exclaimed. “That was some story! I kind of wish the father who adopted her had interrupted you or something, but it was still pretty hot!”"Yeah.” the woman in the PIA sweatshirt added. “I was really hoping there would be some edgier elements to it. My first thought was ‘Oh no, not another story where the consent is clear and mutual!’ but, if I had to kill thirty minutes in an airport lounge in Denver, it would probably do the trick.”"Guys.” the college professor spoke in an exasperated tone, “I don’t know what to tell you. That was a true story. It really happened.”"Oh, nice one!” a beefy-looking man wearing a tweed polo interjected. “Everyone knows that these are just stories, right?”The entire gathering, with the exception of the detec

Adult Swim $44 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adult Swim, often stylized as [adult swim] and abbreviated as [as], is an adult-oriented cable television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM ET/PT in the United States and broadcasting in countries such as Australia and New Zealand. The network features animated shows, including original programming, syndicated shows, and Japanese Anime, generally with minimal or no editing for content for the Anime programming. The shows are geared toward a 18+ audience, in contrast to the child and pre-teen daytime programming on Cartoon Network. The shows and commercial breaks are usually interrupted by “bumps”, or moments where short jokes or Internet fan feedback (in which negative feedback is sometimes responded to in a sarcastic manner) are broadcast in simple white letters over a black screen.

An Anatomy of Humor $23.63 New – Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. The types of jokes a person enjoys contribute significantly to the definition of that person as well as to the character of a given society. Berger shows how humor can range from the simple pun to complex plots in Elizabethan plays, in the process exploring why humor is such a dominating force in our lives.

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Analysis of Jokes $165 This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze humorous items in precise detail, in order to understand their mechanisms.The author begins by considering how to study jokes rigorously: the assumptions to make, the guidelines to follow and the pitfalls to avoid. A critique of other work on humour is also provided. This introduces some important concepts, and also demonstrates the lack of agreement about what a theory of humour should look like. The language devices used in various jokes, such as puns or humour based on misinterpretation, are analysed in detail. The central part of the book develops, and demonstrates, proposals for how best to analyze the workings of simple jokes. Finally, the author makes some general suggestions about the language devices that seem to be central to the construction of jokes.The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students of humour research, linguistics and cognitive science.