The great Neil Simon wrote many very funny plays.
One of them being, The Sunshine boys. It was about two old vaudevillian performers who hate each other, but have to perform one last show together.
One of the characters in the book says that all funny words
start with K. The examples he gives include chicken, pickle, and cupcake. He also says that tomato and roast beef are not funny. No K.
This is true. Most K words are funny for some reason, but
they’re not the only ones. Take a word like ‘sheboigan.’ Okay, it’s a nonsense word. I have no idea what it means, but it’s funny (at least to me.) It doesn’t have a K
Another example is the word ‘doodah.’
Janet Evanovich used it very effectively in her book, Smoking Seventeen.
"His lips were soft on my mouth, his hands were firm on my back, his tongue
touched mine, and swirled through me and went straight to my doodah."
Here are some examples of other funny
words—Dinghy, titter, fopdoodle (hard to use in a sentence,)
snickerdoodle.
But of course there are many ordinary words that are funny as well.
I've always thought ‘shorts,' was a funny word.
For example take the following joke--"At customs they asked if I
had anything to declare. I said “Yes, my shorts are too tight.”
To me that’s much funnier than saying underwear.
The great thing about funny words is that their ‘comedy in a
box.’ That is, you simply insert them into a sentence and you have “funny.”
“What’s all the fopdoodle?” “
Bob is wonderful. He’s a real snickerdoodle.”
“I heard Bob has a new dinghy.”
One thing to notice is that the funny word generally occurs at
the end of the sentence.
So, why don’t you try to use some funny word in your next masterpiece or even in your life. It’s lots of fun.
Until next time, I hope you all have lots of titters every
day!
Steve
One of them being, The Sunshine boys. It was about two old vaudevillian performers who hate each other, but have to perform one last show together.
One of the characters in the book says that all funny words
start with K. The examples he gives include chicken, pickle, and cupcake. He also says that tomato and roast beef are not funny. No K.
This is true. Most K words are funny for some reason, but
they’re not the only ones. Take a word like ‘sheboigan.’ Okay, it’s a nonsense word. I have no idea what it means, but it’s funny (at least to me.) It doesn’t have a K
Another example is the word ‘doodah.’
Janet Evanovich used it very effectively in her book, Smoking Seventeen.
"His lips were soft on my mouth, his hands were firm on my back, his tongue
touched mine, and swirled through me and went straight to my doodah."
Here are some examples of other funny
words—Dinghy, titter, fopdoodle (hard to use in a sentence,)
snickerdoodle.
But of course there are many ordinary words that are funny as well.
I've always thought ‘shorts,' was a funny word.
For example take the following joke--"At customs they asked if I
had anything to declare. I said “Yes, my shorts are too tight.”
To me that’s much funnier than saying underwear.
The great thing about funny words is that their ‘comedy in a
box.’ That is, you simply insert them into a sentence and you have “funny.”
“What’s all the fopdoodle?” “
Bob is wonderful. He’s a real snickerdoodle.”
“I heard Bob has a new dinghy.”
One thing to notice is that the funny word generally occurs at
the end of the sentence.
So, why don’t you try to use some funny word in your next masterpiece or even in your life. It’s lots of fun.
Until next time, I hope you all have lots of titters every
day!
Steve