An overview of "juxtaposition" and other creativity tools that the comedy writing pros you to quickly turn a blank page into comedy gold. And how to write a funny caption

1. Stop Boring Content With
Comedy Writing Secrets
Tim Washer
@timwasher

2. Laws of Comedy
• Hard Left Turn
• Pain
• Hard K sound. And X
• Numbers: Odd is funnier than even
• ”Goat”
• Call-back
• Vulnerability

3. https://youtu.be/MSqXKp-00hM
“With this in the backdrop, IBM is
re-positioning the mainframe as a
back-to-the-future alternative. The
tone of Hoey’s spoof training video
is in keeping with the kinder,
humbler image IBM now seeks to
project.”

4. Hyperbole

6. Parody

7. “They said in 4 minutes something I've been saying for 10 years with
hundreds of thousands of words.”
https://youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg?t=1m9s

8. Political attack ad parody with Ann Handley https://vimeo.com/60120766

9. Juxtaposition

10. Put an extraordinary character in an
ordinary situation

11. youtube/DudeDayFilms

12. Anachronism

13. https://vimeo.com/207290508/bb58470afd

14. Suggestion 1 Suggestion 2
Attributes
Juxtaposition

16. Suggestion 1 Suggestion 2
Attributes
JUXTAPOSITION
Circus Bacon

17. Creepy
Circus
Clowns
Shovel
Trapeze
Pigs
Bacon
Farm
Ham
Eggs
Rooster
The Shining
Confetti

18. Clowns Farm
Attributes
• Rainbow hair
• Giant shoes
• Makeup
• Packed into car
• Balloons
• Farmer
• Livestock
• Early risers
• Rooster
• Tractor

20. Captions

21. For Sale:
Leather sofa.
Seats 5 comfortably

22. My little girl’s
becoming a
woman

25. Plymouth Rock
Where the
pilgrims hid the
spare house key

26. Delaware River Gap
Paddling through the
state forest we
spotted 4 bald eagles
and one with a pretty
bad comb-over

27. WARNING: Beware
of bears making
announcements

28. Waited here for
10 minutes
before I realized
this wasn’t a
Cinnabon
Rijksmuseum Schiphol
Airport

30. Ask me anything at the Post-Presentation Huddle!
tim@timwasher.com
@timwasher