Comments on: Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:36:45 +0000

I think the best example of non sequitur humor is everything Douglas Adams ever wrote. None of it made much sense and yet you find yourself laughing. The improbability drive was basically a non sequitur manufacturing machine. The whale falling from the sky was possibly the most hilarious form of this humor. In fact, I would venture to say 90% of the Hitchhiker’s Guide was non sequitur

By: Back to the Podsuming | BrainWyrms

Back to the Podsuming | BrainWyrms — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:16:41 +0000

[...] Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor [...]

By: Mike Barker

Mike Barker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:52:50 +0000

Rugged week, but … here’s a transcript. No penguins to sacrifice though…

http://mbarker.livejournal.com/131493.html

By: WEKM

WEKM — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:19:34 +0000

Yea! Now I can listen to the cast! Yes, I know I could have listened to it online, but I am stubborn.
Also, I tried, but trying to listen at the computer, well, let’s just say that there were to many distractions.

By: Matthew Whitehead

Matthew Whitehead — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:52:38 +0000

Thanks Jordo! (And howard )

@Kaa: While I like Monty Python, Brandon definitely did go over much of the components of their humour. They were excellent at the non-sequitur, and they improvised to find their way to a “surprising but inevitable” punchline.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:31:15 +0000

L.M. Montgomery wrote that a sense of humor was just a sense of the fitness of things. It seems to me that there are two extensions of that: the non sequiteur, which blows our expectations by not fitting at all, and any other form of humor, which changes our expectations by fitting the wrong way.

Nothing new, really, but an interesting angle on the topic, I think.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:43:08 +0000

A wizard did it…

By: Howard Tayler

Howard Tayler — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:25:39 +0000

@Mike Barker: Jordo fixed it yesterday afternoon. Not sure what he did. Magic?

By: Mike Barker

Mike Barker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:11:33 +0000

psst… not sure when it changed, but the version I just downloaded plays nicely in Windows Media Player. No joke.

By: Jute

Jute — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:54:02 +0000

I just started reading Scott Lynch’s ‘Lies of Locke Lamora’ and I found myself laughing out loud from the beginning of this book. What category would this type of humor fall into? Since much of what I find funny seems to be the audacity of young Locke juxtaposed with the exasperation of the Thiefmaker, what type is this? And what would you call the type of humor that comes from verbal sparring between various characters?