I love jokes. I love to write and tell jokes and funny stories. I love the little bit of meaning and perfection that I experience when someone greatly laughs at one of my funny lines. I feel I have had a productive day at work if I make someone laugh.
I work as an instructional designer. I create learning experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skills more efficient, effective, and appealing.
In this blog, I apply instructional design to the study and practice of writing funny things and making people laugh. If we know why people laugh, then maybe we can make it happen more often. This means that I set out to answer the important questions that every comedy nerd wants to know including:
- What is actually funny?
- What makes things funny?
- How do we crack the humour code?
- Why do we study and analyze humour?
- Why is it that how-to-do-comedy books are more often than not written by someone you have never heard of?
I apply what I learn from my study of comedy writing when I write jokes and funny lines for my stories, speeches, online courses, and comedy performances.
As I favour the funny filters of irony, character, reference, hyperbole and meta-humour, this makes me an introverted and contrarian comedy nerd who is prone to exaggeration and saying the opposite of what he actually means while making trivial observations that mock stand up comedy and the idea of humour itself.