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Humor is important. if you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. clever people especially.

-Patrick Rothfuss

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Humor Is Important. If You're Going To

Patrick Rothfuss

Humor is important. if you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. clever people especially.

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I'm not offended. lenny bruce taught me that everything's funny. you can make everything funny. i don't think that assassinations are funny, i don't think you can make fun of isis, but almost everything is funny. and if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? so i don't mind ethnic humor. i like ethnic humor. i like dialect jokes. laughter is a very subjective thing. if it's funny to you it's funny. and a lot of things are funny to me.

Vera said: 'why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' so i told her why: because if i tell the story, i control the version. because if i tell the story, i can make you laugh, and i would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. because if i tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. because if i tell the story, i can get on with it.

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. why don't we just laugh at ourselves? we are funny. gays are funny. straights are funny. women are funny. men are funny. we are all funny, and we all do funny things. let's laugh about it.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. you have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. you then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. and then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. a powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. if you tell me something's funny, i'll want to rebel against it. when i go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, i get furious. don't tell me that a book is funny. let me decide if it's funny. it's the same with sitcoms. you call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. and that ruins everything.

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