humor writing
Jokes on paper
Humor writing is prose intended to amuse—from comic essays and satirical articles to funny memoirs and absurdist fiction.
The term distinguishes work where comedy is the primary aim from writing that merely contains jokes.
Humor writing encompasses many tones: dry wit, slapstick, parody, irony.
She teaches a workshop on humor writing for magazines.
- satireMockery exposing vice
- parodySatirical imitation
- tongue in cheekHumorously insincere manner
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- Dorothy ParkerRazor-tongued New Yorker
understatement · irony · puns · essays · deadpan · black comedy · comic relief · New Yorker · wit · hyperbole · tall tale · Mark Twain · juxtaposition · Oscar Wilde · farce · screenplays · sarcasm · novels
- comedycomedy, jokes, puns, sarcasm, stand-up
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, history, memoir
- comedy termsjokes, puns, wit, sarcasm, irony
- humor publishingsatire magazines, humorous essays, editorial cartoons, political cartoons, comic strips
- amateur writingfan fiction, fanfic, blog posts, blogging, blogs
- Gilded Age LiteratureMark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, The Gilded Age, Huckleberry Finn
humor writingtragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
drama · dramatic writing · lamentation · elegy · pathos
humor writingtechnical writing
Clear explanation of complexity
academic writing · legal writing · scientific writing · expository writing · journalistic writing