Funny Stuff About Humor Writing

There are no degrees one can get in the higher education lobbies for a certified professional humor writer. There are few unions for gag writers and only a dearth of books written on the subject. But humor is getting more and more in demand in higher education, in board rooms, in seminars, in TV sitcoms, and in film scriptwriting.

There are a few universities offering humor writing courses but the bulk of comedy writers for TV and films come from Harvard which surprisingly does not have a humor writing course. Didn't George Bush come from Harvard? Now here's a dude who has a sense of humor. Ever read “George Bushisms?” which is really funny and he never did a humor writing course!

You CV should now have “I have a sense of humor” but how do you assess this? Humor of course depends on the audience it is addressed to. America's Funniest Home Movies goes down well here but not every country likes this type of humor where someone falls off their bike or hurts themselves in some way.

Some say humor indicates command and when we grin it becomes a sign of assurance as fears are indicated by scowls and frowns. Is there a difference between comedy and humor? Well yes. Comedy can be considered the execution of humor and how one gets this across to the audience.

Jokes as themselves are not really part of humor writing...they are just jokes that are used by the amateur comedians to get a laugh but serious comedy writing has an audience spellbound by her presence alone as there is an anticipation of something funny coming now and at any moment soon.

Many jokes have been written years ago and have been regurgitated many times from Mark Twain, W.C. Fields, Milton Berle, George Burns and many others. So the jokes you hear now have been in the archives for some time!

Hard Work Putting Together my Family Fun Website

So it has been some time since I last wrote anything here. That is not because I am lazy although I like to loaf once in a while. Nope, I've been working flat out on my website, getting to know HTML code, putting together one minute movies I make for YouTube and writing up content for my webpages. That chews up many hours in the day!

My website target is to load at least one page a day which includes not only the writing but also getting my photos edited in Photoshop, checking the code, loading the page/s up and then checking it in various browsers. I am sure a lot of you know how much time it takes to put a 500-700 word content page together - especially webmasters.

With all this work I am pleased to say my unique visitor count is going up gradually and I think that has to do with interesting content.

I put a new page in today "How to Draw Animals" even though my website is more about Family Fun. These how-to-draw lesson are aimed at young children and families so parents can guide their kids to more creative interests rather than watching the tube.

My sister Shirley who lives in South Africa sent me these pics today, they are soooo good I thought you might like to see them here: Sorry, when I uploaded them Google gave me an error message so it will have to wait until the next posting.

Please write some comments here if you get a chance to see my website. It is not really cool at the moment but it will be as I climb out of the learning curve!