How To Tell An 'Unfunny' Joke: A Comedian's Notes On 'Anti-Humour' And Perfect Punchlines

Stand-up comedian and writer Sorabh Pant is known for바카라 웹사이트"anti- humour", a style of comedy lacking in intrinsic meaning and intentionally unfunny.바카라 웹사이트He has done over 2,000 shows in various cities of the world. His comedy specials—My Baby Thinks I’m Funny바카라 웹사이트(2016) and바카라 웹사이트Make India Great Again (2018)—were released on Amazon Prime Video recently. In an interview with 바카라's Mayank Jain Parichha, the comedian talks about바카라 웹사이트his new book, 'Vote For Pant: But, Don’t' (Rupa Publications) and the perils of telling "unfunny" jokes.

Edited excerpts from the interview:

Your new book is quite self-reflective. It deals with a lot of questions that most "millennials"바카라 웹사이트hooked to바카라 웹사이트social media face. Was it a conscious decision to write a book with this approach?

First off, I’m not sure if I qualify as a millennial. Since the term was coined by marketing experts - some consider me - born in 1981 - to be a millennial while others consider me to be a faker by year of birth. Also, I mentioned to a few younger millennials that I might be one of them and they gave me a look of spite that could shut down a country. So, maybe I don’t even want to be a millennial if that's their attitude.

I may answer a lot of questions for millennials - especially with regard to empathy and joy on바카라 웹사이트social media - whether they accept me as one of them or not I can't say.바카라 웹사이트 The sort of underlying message is basically in바카라 웹사이트trying to find a balance and realising that the people we바카라 웹사이트interact with online are human beings, millennial or not.바카라 웹사이트

How did you pick the title, 'Vote For Pant: But Don't'?

Someone mentioned that it might be inspired by Ila Arun and her album, “Vote For Ghagra”, which seems good바카라 웹사이트company to be in. However, the title is obviously ironic as it implies something that no one should ever do i.e. vote for me. Especially in lieu of actual politics - which I never ever plan to join, so maybe that decision is taken out of your hands. However, if I do happen to show up in a reality show and I seem to enjoy myself and ask for your vote - then, maybe consider it.바카라 웹사이트Until then don't vote for me. But, vote in general.

A lot of new-age comedians make self-deprecating jokes or jokes on banalities and absurdities of life. Is it because the humour in the age of social media is being constantly censured?

I had written a long answer to this question but, then I got scared of it - so, I did some self-censuring. So here is the censured answer that won't trigger anyone - no idea. Incidentally, I love self-deprecating humour because the only “target” is me and I am not offended. Yet.바카라 웹사이트

Your book has a number of memorable one-liners. My personal favourite is “silliness is also occasionally indefensible” – Can you explain it a bit for your readers. How do you come up with your punchlines?바카라 웹사이트

Since it라이브 바카라 all about surprise and misleading the audience and/or the reader, it라이브 바카라 usually about different techniques: giving abrupt answers (see above) or in contrast바카라 웹사이트a verbose answer or a nonsensical explanation on millennials or the thousands of different ways you can write a joke.바카라 웹사이트That's why I love jokes - there are so many routes you can take, so many roads you can go down and you choose - sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly.바카라 웹사이트

I’ve been a comedy writer since I was in college - which is about 20 years back - so, I’ve had enough time to hone the art of바카라 웹사이트writing punchlines. But, to answer your question on how I come up with my바카라 웹사이트punchlines?바카라 웹사이트By writing, getting on stage, failing, writing again, having terrible thoughts in my head (sometimes), writing, getting on stage, succeeding and feeling slightly more optimistic about life, thinking I'm incredible, releasing said joke or content online, wanting to erase everything I have ever released till someone says something reassuring and then repeating the cycle till the cold hand of death takes me.바카라 웹사이트As with everything else,바카라 웹사이트it라이브 바카라 a practised craft. And I am tolerable at it.

It's worth adding that바카라 웹사이트I don't remember 90 per cent바카라 웹사이트of the things I say and jokes I write so it always makes me very happy when someone tells me they enjoyed anything I wrote or said. So, thanks for finding something I wrote funny.바카라 웹사이트

Each chapter of the book바카라 웹사이트has an intriguing바카라 웹사이트epilogue which you have titled “small thoughts”. Why did you decide to add these바카라 웹사이트separately?

For the main chapters I attempted to do some amount of research - even though it rarely went beyond Google Page 3,바카라 웹사이트I did it nevertheless. I thought it would be fun to just give short paragraphs with quick thoughts on a topic without going too in-depth, as a break from the longer chapters.바카라 웹사이트Just silly pint-sized peanuts between all the courses.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Or I just needed to pad up the book so that I got to the minimum word count so my publishers would not ask for a refund.바카라 웹사이트