The Funny & Insightful Unreliable Narrator

How humor can give creatives leeway in misleading audiences.

Using an unreliable narrator can be tricky. Most readers or viewers trust the narrator, even in fiction. And some wonder why a writer would want to break that trust, making the reader question everything.

Some artists, however, like using unreliable narrators to shake up a reader’s view of things or challenge audiences to re-evaluate how they process the…