Comedy Prompts
Comedy
Prompts
"I have
to go!" she/he said suddenly, jumping up from the table during dinner.
"I'd
like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told
the airline employee.
A former
party animal lives in a retirement home. They've decided it's time for one last
bash.
A friendly
pranking rivalry between two colleagues in an office starts to get serious.
A group of
villains go on a team-building retreat.
Emotional
baggage must now be checked in at the airport.
It was just a
regular day at the office. Then the power went out.
It was the
most epic senior prank your high school had ever seen.
It's a
Thursday evening, and Greg Richerson is flashing his sports cars again.
It's March
31st, the busiest day of the year at the joke shop you own.
It's
Wednesday evening and you're off to the weekly meeting of your writer's block
support group.
One day, the
world wakes up to find the Easter Island heads facing the opposite direction.
The Tooth
Fairy finds something unexpected sitting beside the expected tooth under a
child's pillow.
Write a story
that ends by coming full circle.
Write a story
that ends by jumping forward several years.
Write a story
that ends with a shocking plot twist.
Write a story
with an open ending.
You
accidentally break something at a dinner party and go to ever-increasing
lengths to cover it up.
You are a
curmudgeonly old man whose name is Writer S. Block. You just spotted your next
victim.
You are a
professional hoax-buster.
You are a
server at a restaurant, having the busiest shift of your life.
You could
only watch in disbelief as the work-place prank you had planned turned to
chaos.
You have a
writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible time.
You were
mowing your lawn when someone walked by your yard and burst into tears.
You were
staring out the bus window idly when someone sat down and said, "What a
DAY!"
You're a
bartender at a neighborhood pub. A regular comes in and says, "Do I have a
story for you!"
You're a food
critic eating the best meal of your life. You're at McDonalds.
You're a
janitor at a large school. People wouldn't believe the things you've heard.
Your new cell
phone number used to be the number of a very popular personal therapist.
12 Funny
Short Story Writing Prompts
Here are some writing
ideas and story starters to get you into the process of comedic story writing.
If you aspire to write comedy short stories that literally make readers laugh
out loud, or if you just want to write a short story with a whimsical point of
view, here are some prompts to get you started on the best comedy stories
you’ve ever written.
1.
A bored employee takes over the social media accounts of
the dentist they work for, determined to become an online celebrity.
2.
A high school nerd pranks the principal but frames the
Latin teacher for the crime.
3.
A 30-year-old hipster meets a previously unknown family
member: a young boy who, through an unlikely series of marriages, is legally
his uncle.
4.
A middle school gym teacher with no sense of humor starts
a serious podcast that is unintentionally hilarious.
5.
A string of inside jokes between the president and
secretary of defense leads to an accidental missile attack on Stonehenge.
6.
An author writes the best story of their life, but the
main character is an obvious stand-in for their best friend. When the book
becomes a bestseller, the friend comes to them for a cut of the profits.
7.
A scientist manages to reanimate a 300-year-old werewolf
that he finds in a tomb, but the werewolf turns out to be nebbish and timid and
riddled with insecurities.
8.
A woman dials a phone number that she chooses at random
and asks the person who picks up: “Do you want to meet me for coffee?”
9.
A man visits Hollywood for the first time. On the first
day of his trip, he gets cast in a major soap opera role when a casting
director spots him on the street.
10.
A college student beats every level of a seemingly
impossible superhero video game. The next day, the game’s designer appears at
the student’s front door and proposes marriage.
11.
A woman wins an award at an open mic comedy contest and
gets hired by an eccentric billionaire who wants to be taught how to be funny.
12.
A regional sales manager laces
his motivational speech in so many business school clichés that the employees
think he can’t possibly be human. When a gasket suddenly shoots out of his ear,
they realize he is actually a robot
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