Life is Funny: 5 Tips on How to Write Humor in Your Work
People like to give advice on how to try to be funny when they write. Here’s the short version of my advice: Don’t. Humor happens, so let it, don’t force it. Turn on a TV, or a video streaming site, even if only for an experiment and drink in how we can, in an instant, flip our viewing screens from the horrors of war, to a speech by some dude extolling the virtues of war, to a drama in which tears are shed about someone renovating a home, to another in which tears are shed about baking a cake, to another in which tears are shed about getting fit, and back to the stone-faced guy talking about war—and shedding not…