The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
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I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.
If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.
There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.