More than three and you risk loosing your audience. Less than three and your arguments fall short, unjustified. With every argument, have at least three supporting facts to back up your statements. With any debate or comedy routine, do you pass the test of logos, pathos, and/or ethos? LOGOS – Structure and Logicįor structure I teach the magic three – Great for comedy, great for book reports. Without any grounding in reality we lose our audience. As artists of any kind we will defy logic and reason but without understanding the rules we break we will lose a foot in reality. If the joke does not get a laugh, what have we got? Ethos Logos Pathos in Comedy Writing Laughter as the only goal can fall short. I digress… lolĬomedy writing and presenting is often a form of debate. Unfortunately they too often get this result far to easily. They require masses of blind followers to not question their logic to succeed. Their arguments lack logic, empathy, inspiration, proof, ethics etc. It’s bad enough politicians and their hack representatives on the news shows often outright lie, but their debate technique and story telling is flawed.
Normally these concepts pop up daily as I rip apart political debate. This kid made me think about Logos, Ethos and Pathos and how it can help our comedy writing.
While this sounds ridiculous, it has the basis of a very strong argument.
You sit and observe the world through glass, meanwhile sunbathers suffer. Great story telling is an art with technique.Ī nine year old student from my Sunday class on Long Island did routine about humans over use of glass – basically an argument for sand conservation. Comedy / Creative writing is much more than jokes.