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Greetings, welcome from your guest host to this week's edition of the WdC Comedy Newsletter. I'm honored to be your guest host for this week's WDC Comedy Newsletter.
It takes seven muscles to smile and twenty-seven to frown,
and laughter is an aerobic exercise;
by extension, then, comedy is therapeutic
- both for the writer and the reader/listener
  
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters,
I wouldn't show up.
~ Dr. Seuss
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I'm not a funny person, I'm told. I often miss a punch line; but I have a knack for making people laugh when I open my mouth, albeit at my expense So, I've learned through trial and error to keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut - my pencil ever sharpened .
"Laughter is good medicine!." It's being tested; medical science is even on the bandwagon, postulating that humor is preventive medicine. Laughing has even been touted as an easy, age retarding, low impact physical exercise, requiring just seven muscles to raise a smile, opposed to twenty-some for a line-scoring, drooping frown. How's that for a fountain of youth {e:wink).
act physical exercise, requiring merely seven muscles to raise a smile , opposed to twenty-some for a line-scoring, drooping frown .
Humor is out there, seeking but the discerning eye and open mind (which writers, by nature, have). Just think about it, who wouldn't laugh as the convenience store robber, running for the exit, holding tight his bag of cash from the register, finds his unbelted 'fashionable' droopy drawers falling to his ankles. He has to stop and bend over to pull them up, an apparent invitation to the arriving officers to cuff his wrists and retrieve the purloined money, while he's already shackled by his pants around his ankles (a true crime).
As you see, humor can be subtle or satiric, as well as out-and-out funny.
There is a variety of expression for comedy - for seeing or creating something funny. Let's explore a couple of comedic expressions that aren't the familiar pie-in-the-face comedy.
What you see is what you make of it. We can find and showcase the humor in everyday life, often by inflating the importance of trivial things or by noting how silly 'normal' can be. Vignettes on slices of life as seen or designed by you. A couple of ways to find (or create) this funny: some alternative comedy, such as satire, slapstick and surrealism and wit.
 Create a satirical image by exaggerating the ordinary, emphasizing the trivial, making foibles into funny.
 Make a minor gaffe into a major event with some slapstick images; again focusing on the ordinary and taking it over the top. This comedy often earns a belly laugh.
 Surrealistic comedy, on the other hand, is a play on the absurd. It deliberately violate logic, of what is reasonable, in order to reach results that cannot be, they cannot logically result from your image.
 Play with words and wit. You might think it's topical, but wordplay by subtle manipulation of language (pun included) for a wordsmith (crafting with words) can incite some memorable images in prose and verse. I think this takes a more inventive comedic 'license'. Consider the parodies on daily life (each in their own time, of course) in Shakespeare or The Simpsons.
Remember, laughter is good for you and fun to find and create - for those of us getting ready to Prep for NaNo, consider finding, and adding a touch of comedy to your story
Write On !!
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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I hope you've enjoyed this exploration of comedy and found something to tickle or slam your funnybone. Try it - take 10 minutes a day, see, hear, perceive the comedy of it. Now, write it down so you can laugh again, and share the funny. Pass along the the smile; remember, only seven muscles as opposed to more than twenty, and it's a fit contagion.
And you'll have fun writing it!
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