I am a fan of Scott Adams’s (writer of Dilbert) blog posts on humor. Here’s his post on his humor formula. Excerpt:
The core of humor is what I call the 2-of-6 rule. In order for something to be funny, you need at least two of the following elements:
Cute (as in kids and animals)
Naughty
Bizarre
Clever
Recognizable (You’ve been there)
Cruel
I invented this rule, but you can check for yourself that whenever something is funny it follows the rule. And when something isn’t, it doesn’t.
And here’s his post on humor writing, with reference to this post. (These links are all to the Internet Wayback Machine because he’s moved his blog and the original posts are now offline. You might find the HTML a little off, so if you don’t see the content of the blog post, just scroll down a bit.)
I am a fan of Scott Adams’s (writer of Dilbert) blog posts on humor. Here’s his post on his humor formula. Excerpt:
And here’s his post on humor writing, with reference to this post. (These links are all to the Internet Wayback Machine because he’s moved his blog and the original posts are now offline. You might find the HTML a little off, so if you don’t see the content of the blog post, just scroll down a bit.)