Delivery Problem? David Sedaris Can Help With That
How one of the best comedic essayist uses dry humor to elicit laughs without the benefit of inflection.
One of the most challenging aspects of written humor is that delivery is removed. The reader must somehow infer what the writer is trying to “sound like,” which can get lost when the words all look the same. That leaves comedic tools like dry humor and deadpan to be challenging.
But one comedy writer who consistently uses dry humor in the written form to…
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