I watched a retrospective about Saturday Night Live last night.
Lorne Michaels stated his methodology,
which can be applied to romantic comedies or any light moment in your novel.
1. When
constructing a skit, if it is about things unsaid by the object of your humor
and you* say it, it is funny.2. Humor is truth. Sometimes telling the obvious lie illuminates the truth.
*You = the character who says or thinks something funny.
Would anybody like to supply a humorous exchange or monologue from his or her novel?
If you don’t have a funny bone in your body or you have no clue what I’m talking about…well, then, I’m Sorry, (so sorry), by Brenda Lee 1960. She belts this number one hit out at the age of 15.
Okay, what's so funny about I'm Sorry? Or how does this song apply to the subject of this post? Or am I pulling your leg? Or is this haunting melody, something I just couldn't get out of my head when I heard it again recently?
Coincidently, I'm sorry my romantic comedy, Double Happiness, doesn't have a bigger audience. If you too lament your sales numbers join me in feeling forlorn.
