Books like The Comic Toolbox How to Be Funny Even If You're Not

Want to be funny? Easy thing, just develop the habit of permanently dealing with the worst and most horrible things on earth and bingo! Instant and forever hahaha. Try to tell a joke without anyone getting hurt, discriminated against, insulted, etc or topics that aren´t bad or controversial. Hard you think? It´s impossible, the whole functionality of any comedy is based on the suffering of one of the participants. The best habit I developed for myself after reading this great book was to read scripts of the best-rated episodes of wonderful sick and disturbing shows like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Drawn together, South Park, black comedy in general, etc.The same, in a much more dense form, can be found in dirty, evil jokes.So why is this disgusting grit so important? Cause it´s the lowest base of comedy, the pain, the origins we come from, the suppressed sexuality, violence, grievance, cognitive dissonances all humans live with. Out of this pain and unlogic comes humor in all it´s different stages from low brow to high brow, from toilet humor to Woody Allen.It seems as if subconscious, taboo topics have immense strength. Cause of political correctness and to avoid killing each other, humans have to lie all day long to, let´s be honest, everyone. Not just to real people, but also to themselves when things don´t seem to fit together and we enter the area of self-deceit, the three monkeys pop up and we suppress those thoughts.Comedy takes this problem, throws it onto the stage and reliefs us by making it possible to laugh about something we could never mention in real life. Now, analyze anything seen, heard or read that is funny. A great example is the analyses of Pratchett's work:Here you can see the underlying main topics that would be boring without the efforts of one of the greatest authors of all time.https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheibe...I couldn´t find a list with the motives in Englisch, but it is highly recommended to check everything, from a long satire to the shortest joke about the driving engine of sadness, madness and pain behind it. Maybe this is why comedy writers aren´t funny. Enjoy! I would highly recommend to use Tvtropes, search your favorite comedy books, films and TV shows, analyze the used tools, check the Tvtropes index for lists with comedy topics and see how this whole business of desperately trying to be funny and profound hardly ever works. Lol Rofl Hahaha. PS: If someone has no humor, can´t laugh about her/himself and tends to be easily offended, it is very often a sign of a conservative and self restricted mind, just thinking in endless repetition: " Yuck, controversial topics, something that criticizes my mentality and makes fun of it =me. Filthy sex, evil violence, etc. To hell with all those sinners." In a certain way, I find this very funny in its own, strange way. Cause as soon as someone begins to censor her/himself and others it´s an endeavor that is predestined to fail. It´s not really a sign of maturity or merely adulthood to get angry cause others do things that one finds offensive without that anyone is getting harmed by people who are just peacefully trying to live their life. It´s just pitiful.