• Being lighter in the tone of ridicule
  • “New Erotica for Feminists” plays with the form of porn/genre of porn, then adds lighter twists (i.e. the man says something feminist, people are aroused by feminism)
• Push the ridicule over the tipping point so that you ridicule another thing (i.e. a different subject, the narrator, etc)
  • “An Open Letter to Would-Be Improv Comedians” slowly shifts the object of ridicule to the narrator
    • Uses recognizable logic
    • Uses the lack of self-awareness
• Play with the varying personalities/thoughts of a narrator by using form to switch back and forth
  • “Hello, 911?” flip-flops between the longer personal thoughts the narrator is anxious about and with the quick urgent moments of panic she has too
    • An inner-thought vs public performance balance
• Show don’t tell
  • The “Improv” piece lets you figure out that the narrator is a bad person, rather than tell you
  • Add something specific and then the audience can make associations from that for themselves
    • i.e. “that show “Greenleaf” on the Oprah Network” (“Hello, 911?”)
• Using God and religion to make fun of something
  • Use God’s infallibility to make fun of humans/your object of ridicule
    • i.e. “Client Feedback on the Creation of the Earth”
  • Raise the stakes or escalate
    • i.e. “God Updates Mankind on Their Pronouns”

• Putting joke in the headline to carry piece
  • Sustaining joke
    • Parodying form
    • Making sure you play within the form
  • Ridicule can vary within fake news form
    • Dark or weird
    • Ie. Reagan vs Fish
• Ridiculing narrator
  • Slow build of piece
  • Overly descriptive sentences 
    • i.e. “An actual crevice-cleaning, hair-washing shower”
  • Dramatic situation
    • God vs Subjects

~ Marty and Luna