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Tag: Humor

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Republican Jesus – The Right to Cast Stones

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019

“Certainly it’s these men’s God given right to bear stones, and there’s no law against them bearing stones?”

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  • Profile

The Boys on the Jungle Gym – Matt Burroughs & TehBen, Writers

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019

At the start of 2018, writer and editor Loryn Stone undertook a very simple yet…

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  • On Writing

Lessons From a F*** Up

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

It’s a challenge to not just be funny, it’s a challenge to be better.

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  • On Writing

The Who, What, and Where – Writing Lessons from Improv 101

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 4, 2019

Find the core of your scene and build around it, don’t panic and have plagues of locusts fly in just because it feels “too small.”

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  • On Writing

Mon Men – Available Now

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on January 2, 2019February 18, 2019

Available today on iTunes  the first episode of a podcast project I’m undertaking with a…

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  • Essay

It All Comes Around, Except When it Doesn’t – My Favorite Incomplete Jokes in TV & Movies

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on October 28, 2018December 7, 2018

The best comedies don’t leave loose threads, everything comes back around- whether we realize it…

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  • Essay

The Uncommon Goodness of The Good Place

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on September 6, 2018September 6, 2018

Filled with positivity, heart, and goodness throughout every fiber of its beautiful tapestry that has thus far been woven for us.

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  • Essay

Disenchantment Review

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 18, 2018August 18, 2018

Matt Groening Takes the Throne as a Legend of Animated TV Comedy

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  • Short Story

How Societal Pressures and a Great Christian Bale Impression Turned me into a Mob Enforcer – A Cautionary Tale

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 6, 2018August 6, 2018

This may just be another cliche story about a young man pressured by conceived notions of masculinity who ends up becoming an enforcer for a crime family, but I think there’s value in my telling it even if just one person can learn from it.

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  • Production Notes

What About the Girl?

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 2, 2018

Stories with women that are just set dressing or targets for the male protagonists are worthless. Flesh her out. Give her agency and goals of her own.

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