Is This Guy Trying to Be Funny?

             In addition to there not being one way to write the perfect story, there is no way to make the perfect joke, pun, or humorous saying. The difficulty is that, like with the perfect story,  everyone has different tastes in what they call funny, different backgrounds that inform said tastes, and different situations that influence their feelings (in the days after the recent shootings, not many people were laughing at gun jokes). Additionally, it's nearly impossible for one person to determine if they are funny or not, since what makes them laugh might make another person with similar humor tastes not laugh.

            As I was pondering the problem of puns, I thought up a couple ways to make a joke, all of which can be incorporated into some form of writing.

Make a Connection Between Two Unsimilar Things (Appeal to the Unexpected)

              Who would expect a guy with facial hair to sing and dance like Miley Cyrus?

Make a Connection That Is Accurate Between Two Things (Appeal to the Expected)

            This trick is a little harder, since the audience might guess the punchline from the situation. In the above video, after the villain kills that guy with the quill, the audience might expect the line about the pen (although, Joker is so creepy in appearance in this video that humor might be hard anyway). Still, that's how it's done.

Make a Point and Connect Back to It (Appeal to the Long Memory)

            I don't need to expound upon this one, since it is possible to determine if you are hilarious or not (get it? It's that simple).

           Do you have any other suggestions of how to be funny?