Funny Writing

I wish I could write funny. I have a very dry, very sarcastic sense of humor that doesn't translate well in print.

Sometimes I think I've come up with a pretty clever line, but almost every time I go back and read it, it's not as funny as it was in my head when I heard it in my tone of voice with the right inflection on a certain word that made it a humorous bit of text.

I'd take a class in humorous writing if I had the time and if I thought I could learn something, but I'm not sure funny is something that can be taught. Either you are or you aren't, you don't learn it. Well, you can learn physical comedy, but a pratfall is another one of those things that doesn't translate well in written form.

I guess that just means I have to become a famous writer and then I can do television interviews and people can see just how funny I am -- or at least how funny I think I am. Unfortunately, funny, like beauty, is probably in the eye or ear of the beholder.