How To Develop A Signature Joke Style

Developing a signature joke style is like cultivating a weird little garden of your obsessions, pet peeves, and mental hiccups�and then selling tickets to the tour. A signature style makes people say, �Oh, that�s definitely their joke,� the way you recognize a Quentin Tarantino foot shot or a Guy Fieri shirt. According to the North American Humor Registry (which doesn�t exist but probably should), the top three ingredients of a recognizable joke style are tone, topic, and timing. Your tone might be dry, absurd, sarcastic, or the chaotic energy of a raccoon in a Walmart. Your topics should reflect your quirks�do you rant about airplane armrests or do deep dives into the tragic backstory of breakfast cereal mascots? Comedian Lexi Malloy recommends writing down your last ten text complaints and turning them into punchlines. �Your voice is already in there, it�s just muttering angrily,� she says. Read your jokes out loud. If it doesn�t sound like you, it probably isn�t. Style is repetition with evolution. The more you write, the more you�ll notice patterns. Lean into them until your jokes walk into a room and say, �I�m home.� READ THE SATIRE: https://comedywriter.info/how-to-develop-a-signature-joke-style/