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Date Posted: 10:34:20 12/09/05 Fri
Author: Jim Bevan
Subject: How do you get your inspiration?

I hope nobody minds my asking this, but I've been curious as to how the other writers for the show get their ideas. What sparks your creative juices and gets you in the mood to write something funny? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, I'm just a little interested in learning what my friends do for inspiration.

I guess I'll start things off. If I'm stuck and unable to think of anything funny, I'll first read some of my favorite comics: The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, Foxtrot and Pearls Before Swine work best for me. If after that I'm still dry on ideas, then I'll watch the Simpsons or South Park, two of the funniest shows on television. With luck, by then I'll have caught something absurd that has comedic potential. Still nothing after South Park, then I go to stage three. That consists of renting and viewing an incredibly funny movie: Airplane, Blazing Saddles, Gremlins 2, Caddyshack, or my all-time favorite, A Night at the Opera. After all that's done, I'll have stockpiled on humor and I'm ready to look out at the world and find something absurd or stupid to make fun of, or wait for a freakishly funny thought to enter my head.

Then again, if all three steps fail, I have a glass of orange juice, play Mario Party, go to sleep, and repeat the next day.

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