Ideas for Comedy Writers by Dave Haslett

Author:Dave Haslett
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: ideas4writers
Published: 2013-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

98. Plausible … implausible … impossible.

String together a few seemingly plausible events in such a way that your audience initially thinks it could happen. Add a few more events to the list and they’ll begin to have doubts. Keep adding more and more and they’ll realise it could never happen. As you make the list longer and ever more implausible, the laughs grow bigger.

[EXTENSION] You could end your long list of events with a ridiculous conclusion. For example, after listing a long string of true (but exaggerated) safety failures involving nuclear power and chemical processing plants, you could say something like: ‘And that’s how the French make beer’.

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