About Lucas Werner Expertise Nothing Major. I can discuss issues relating to comics who talk politics.
Experience Years of fandom. An extensive library. A lot of free time. Been to a show or two. Met a few comics. Henry Rollins is a really nice guy. Bob Saget is dirtier live. Jon Stewart wrote a funny book.
I just started working as a news reporting intern for Canyon News and The San Francisco News. My goal is to eventually write for their humor columns, but I'm not sure what subjects I should write about, except things I'm familiar with, such as life's everyday hassle's. Nothing topical, such as politics, how certain celebrities are doing, etc. Just coping with daily stressors.
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Answer How about observations? Look for what you find funny or ironic in daily life and write short bits. Nothing cheesy or too heady. You can even do short vignettes. Here's an example of something I've written:
THE MAN WHO LOST SOME ETC.
Seems there was an old story about an Iron E that fell off a building sign front. The story goes that the Iron E broke upon the ground and was utterly destroyed. So the building owner had to find a replacement Iron E. He went to the same lettering shop that supplied his building with the original Iron E. But he couldn't afford it. So he had to have an auction of some other spare letters he had lying around in storage. He even had to get rid of his treasured Subtle T and some well placed Decent C's.
It took several weeks of selling and bargaining and so forth to get enough money from his old Iron letters. Finally he had enough money to buy a replacement Iron E, but alas, it was too late. All the Iron E's had been sold off.
"I'm sorry, sir," the shop owner consoled, "we no longer supply Iron E's. An alphabet enthusiast caught wind of an auction of letters here in town and bought up every Iron letter from around the county, in a zealous quest for more characters to add to his collection. However," he continued, "the nose knows where you can find such rare items."
And that's how the man began to pick up some new found scents of at least an Iron E.
