Punching Up Jokes

This 500-word satire imagines a fake Olympic sport called �Punchline Lifting,� judged by angry Twitter mobs and your ex�s new boyfriend. It describes punching up as �adding one sprinkle of clever to your pile of chaos.� There�s a fictional workshop where jokes are hooked to electrodes and forced to compete for laughs. Bad puns are sent to rehab. The piece ends with this maxim: �If the joke doesn�t land, build a runway. Then crash a clown car into it.� HOW TO WRITE COMEDY: https://comedywriter.info/punching-up-jokes/ AND http://comedywriter.info/