Comedy plays an important role in lightening up the everyday lives of people. They help in relaxing and making people feel good about themselves while forgetting about all of their worries for a short moment. No matter what age of audience you are targeting, everybody loves a good loud laugh.

Taking a more scientific turn in this, laughter can also help in releasing endorphins which are hormones for “feel-good” emotion in human beings. Along with this, it also reduces hormones related to stress and anxiety. Here we are going to discuss some prompts and tips for creating hilarious stories. 

6 Funny Writing Prompts To Increase The Humor Of Your Story

However, crafting comedy stories is quite an extensive task of writing and editing because of which you should get help from book proofreading services. Some prompts that can help you get an idea are:

1. A world where everyone suddenly starts speaking the truth without having the ability to lie anymore.
2. Parodic stories of some of the most classics in literature like Romeo and Juliet are archnemesis instead of lovers.
3. A world where all the non-living things get the ability to speak and communicate with each other.
4. A woman who is a business owner is forced to go on a series of blind dates that are set up by her grandmother.
5. A serious teacher of a prestigious school with no sense of humor is suddenly forced to take over unintentionally hilarious school broadcasts. 
6. An egotistical genius who is quite intelligent but lacks the ability to understand basic humor and jokes.
7. An old comedic expert loses a competition due to his old sense of humor and goes on a journey to learn new jokes.
8. A dull person who lacks a sense of humor suddenly hires an expert to teach him how to be funny and hilarious.
9. An old person with a great sense of dad jokes suddenly gets his soul transferred into a young high school boy.
10. A poor boy from a small town suddenly gets a job in a highly reputed firm in a megacity and his difficulty in adjusting to the new. 

5 Essential Tips To Expertly Incorporate Humor In Storytelling 

Everyone has a different sense of humor and what one might find funny might not be funny at all for the other. However, some general tips that can make your comedic storytelling long-lasting are:

• Accept Your Sense Of Humor

The first and foremost thing that you should do before starting your writing journey is to accept your own humor. Everyone has some potential in them to be funny, you just need to believe in yourself.

If you bring out that factor of being funny in you then you can also include it in your books, short stories, and texts. Find that character or side of yourself that brings out the humor to craft humorful stories.

• Master Timing Of Your Jokes

Every type of writing requires the correct amount of timing to be effective. Like all other stories, comedic writing also has a narrative arc, characters, and climaxes that need to be outlined in the correct order.

The art of this is carefully building up the narrative and scenes and then suddenly ending it with an impactful punchline. Be thoughtful and deliberate while crafting your stories and punchlines.

• Identify Targeted Audience

Every type of audience has a different sense of humor and the jokes they find funny. For example, a joke targeting parents or their experience would not be funny for kids, adults, or high school students.

If you have identified the targeted audience for your comedic stories then you can craft accurate scenes, messages, and punchlines. Your funny stories should be relatable to the audience you are writing for.

• Keep The Jokes Short & Funny

Short jokes are often used in more comedic settings like stand-up comedies that are actually funny and popular for their sense of humor. Building long stories in your comedy writing can get quite boring.

You should include the punchline of your story while the audience finds it funny. If you drag it on for too long, your audience might lose overall interest in it and would not even get your punchline.

• Remember To Avoid Cliches

Another important tip that you should always note is to avoid the usage of cliches. Cliches are often taboo for writers, they are only funny when they are the ones being made fun of and exaggerated.

You can create more new and fresh stories by presenting cliches out of their context. This gives a new image of the said cliché and the audience can actually join you in with the humor that it creates.

Conclusion

These are all the prompts and tips that will guide you towards your comedy writing journey.