When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.