Me: I’m thinking of writing today’s post on comedy writing.
Inner Critic (hereon known as IC): You! What makes you think you’re funny?
Me: Well, I do write women’s fiction and women’s fiction often has funny scenes in it.
IC: True. But you also write crime novels, about serial killers and college professors who get murdered. And then you wrote that memoir all about death and grief and mourning.
Me: It did have some humor in it.
IC: Tell me a joke.
Me: This is not about how to write a joke book.
IC: See? You can’t even tell a joke. How do you expect to write comedy?
Me: Okay. Here’s a joke. I heard it on the radio yesterday morning. Jess Bering, known as the Hunter S. Thomson of science writing was being interviewed on CBC.
IC: Never heard of him.
Me: He wrote this book called Perv – The Sexual Deviant in All of Us.
IC: That’s the joke?
Me: No. The joke is that during the interview he said that some people get upset over gay marriages so they say “What’s next? People wanting to marry their horses or dogs?”
Me: (insert hilarious laughter).
IC: You think people having sex with their animals is funny?
Me: It depends on how the animal feels, I guess.
IC: You’re joking, right?
Me: I thought you said I couldn’t write humor.
Anyway, it’s Friday. Who wants to hear about more writing techniques? All you want is a date, right? So instead have a look at this video. I’d love to hear your comments on what makes it funny to you. If it does.
Carol Balawyder 
I love your IC….and the cheezburger video….do more of that!
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Thanks…It’s not that easy to do. I tend to doubt myself a lot.
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Thanks for stopping by and liking my post!
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The Inner Critic sounds so cynical. I really like it. Would be great if you did more of this!
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Thanks for the encouragement. We all have our inner critics. I think I’ll try to develop this and take control of my inner critic who always wants to tell me that I’m not good enough, not talented enough, not enough of whatever.
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Everyone has an inner critic – but some are more vicious than others, like in the video clip. What was also interesting was that the young man and the woman serving ice cream were attracted to each other but unable to communicate. Goes to show how our inner critic can get in the way!
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