Awesome post! (Post? Article? Lecture slides? Don’t know what to call it.) I’ve learned so much through Chuffah and I love using that knowledge to analyze sketches that I love and some that I think fall flat find out why. One thing I keep running across is sketches that I feel like knock it out of the park and I can’t quite place why they work in the field of sketch comedy so well. This post has given me such a clear understanding about how a lot of those sketches break rules in clever ways to give themselves a certain X-factor that makes them funnier and more interesting than more formulaic, hyper-technical sketches. Thank you so much for this!
Also, the section about not shying away from stupid has given me more confidence in my sketches than ever. Maybe I need to revisit some of my more absurdly dumb ideas buried in my notes.
That "Don't shy away from stupid" part is something that I've been trying to to get down for the better part of a decade now. Middle and High School me was pretentious about humor, and that habit dies *hard*.
Keep that old snooty version of you around for editing, but get him out of the way for the first draft and ideation phase. This is my own personal taste, but I think my favorite bits of comedy have an element of daring stupidity to them, and to get there you have to force the part of your brain that says, "this is a bad idea" to sit in the back seat for a while.
Awesome post! (Post? Article? Lecture slides? Don’t know what to call it.) I’ve learned so much through Chuffah and I love using that knowledge to analyze sketches that I love and some that I think fall flat find out why. One thing I keep running across is sketches that I feel like knock it out of the park and I can’t quite place why they work in the field of sketch comedy so well. This post has given me such a clear understanding about how a lot of those sketches break rules in clever ways to give themselves a certain X-factor that makes them funnier and more interesting than more formulaic, hyper-technical sketches. Thank you so much for this!
Also, the section about not shying away from stupid has given me more confidence in my sketches than ever. Maybe I need to revisit some of my more absurdly dumb ideas buried in my notes.
I’m glad these posts have been helpful! Don’t hesitate to drop a question in the comments, even if it seems off-topic
That "Don't shy away from stupid" part is something that I've been trying to to get down for the better part of a decade now. Middle and High School me was pretentious about humor, and that habit dies *hard*.
Keep that old snooty version of you around for editing, but get him out of the way for the first draft and ideation phase. This is my own personal taste, but I think my favorite bits of comedy have an element of daring stupidity to them, and to get there you have to force the part of your brain that says, "this is a bad idea" to sit in the back seat for a while.