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Humor Writing:
Awesomely Luvvie
Lizz Winstead
Jessica Bern
What makes you funny?
LW: That is for others to decide. What inspires me is political, social and women oriented satire. I like to keep ridiculing on those who have power and use it for evil. Essentially, shitting on white guys who are assholes.
JB: what makes me funny is I’m an idiot and have no filter between my brain and mouth. Also the fact that I was married to an asshole.
Luvvie: I like to write about celebrities and their foolishness. I ask the question or make the comments which
everyone is thinking but will not ask or say. Essentailly my bluntness.
LW: should be able to say what you like to whoever you like and realize there is a consequence. There is a fine line between snark and satire. Easy to go down the snark road.
JB: When you’re making fun of someone, ask yourself if someone in Egypt read this would they find it funny? Ofcourse the people you’re mocking won’t find you funny , you just mocked them!!! People do have a quasi expectation of privacy. Also remember there is no eraser on the internet. If you’re going to mock friends or those clost to you, call them and ask them if you can mock them…most of the time it’ll be yes.
LW: Or just date someone for a week and use that to shit about your ex-husband. Your ex will never know and you get to tell a funny story.
Luvvie: my family reads my blog. I do not write content that I can’t show to my grandmother.
Question: Using that how do you adjust your content depending on who’s reading it?
LW: I am writing for myself or an audience who shares the way I am living or enjoys the way I’m living. I am a fully formed sexual being who loves and believes in everything I write. People will judge you regardless, so n the end it’s about the truth. The only thing you have control over is the honesty in your writing and not how it is perceived by others.
JB: Remember the worst publicity is no publicity. Ann Coulter will say anything but we’re paying attention. If you have an opinion and want to take a side, whatever it is go with it and stick to it. If you’re going to pander to everyone’s needs, shut it down – you’ll never please everybody.
LW: Car that drives on the middle of the road it causes accidents. Stay on the left or stay on the right.
Question: What do you do when your blog is contradictory to your job? Blog under a differ name or anonymously.
Questions: How do you make serious topics like politics and illnesses funny? LW: I write about everything. The first time I had sex I got pregnant – I wrote about it! Things that are painful come with hindsight – share your experience and give people the wisdom you found. No one can deny the humor you found from a dark experience.
How do you make jokes about tragic experiences? Take a tragic experience and write about it in a way that you’re not cheapening what happened.
For example, The Onion went balls out for 9/11 – all the talk show hosts apologized for the humor prior 9/11 --- being proud of what you write. In your humor writings pick topics correctly instead of being snark filled.
Question: Women and their visibility in comedy, there are so many charges that it’s a sexist environment.
LW: (LW is one of the procreators of daily show.) It’s not a women thing, its a nerd thing. Take gender out of it – people don’t focus, hone or write in that style because there are very few avenues or paths leading down that road. It’s a hard subject matter to write about.
Luvvie – favorite show Scrubs and one of the writers is a woman, the author of Chronicles of a Girl in College. She the only woman in the room full of male writers and she’s not considered funny…but she is! She has to fight tooth nail to get anything out.
JB: There are many brilliant women, and its not about politics. We encourage all of you to please don’t stop reading or supporting women. Believe that #s make a difference. If we keep reading each other, and supporting each
