How to Pun Like The Masters
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Puns have a terrible reputation, but it wasn't always that way. Let's take a look at how people have thought about puns in the past, and how they've been used by clever playwrights and screenwriters.
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Oh, and the book is actually called "Save the Cat" :P - Фільми й анімація
I gave my friend ten puns to make him laugh,sadly no pun in ten did
Drew142 clap clap clap
Good one.👏
XD
I am still a novice
...well pun, my son. 👌
"Don't choke on your aspirations"
MakiPcr Christ 😂
Ohhh, I finally get that joke now! :D
I was just thinking about this scene earlier today. Not sure who included it in Rogue One but it was out of place and they need to LEAF!
*Christopher Henderson*
that's not a pun
Mark Boltz imagine you are choking
He lost his left hand, so he is going to be all right.
That was so bad I couldn't help laughing.
and when his hand chair went missing he said "I never thought I would miss a hand so much." and when he loses his hand well, he misses it. Also when he is sitting at the bench the writing on it says "Arm Off".
There’s another case where the doctor says “it looks like he’s dead” then they ask “it looks like he’s dead or he IS dead?” Then the doctor says “no it just looks like he’s dead. He’s this weird blue colour”.
He lost his funny bone so puns weren’t as *humerus* to him anymore
It was actually funny to me
This was a punishing video to get through.
Keith Ballard ik what u did there
No it wasn't, bitc. Ur negative-feeling opinion reflects on me too poorly to justify your comment's comedic outburst.
MY MAN
PUNishing. Hahaha i get it.
I don't get it.
So, you might say that this video is--------------fuck I can't think of anything.....
A great piece of punditry?
BadassRandomness Punishment.
BadassRandomness has a good pun-t
Someone's excuse to puntificate.
+Sudev Sen The funny thing about your reply is that it in itself was a double pun, since 'point' in my language is spelled 'punt' :-o
Imagine being sent to the chair and the judge just tells you to “Have an electrifying time”
"I believe you'll find this quite SHOCKING"
Now that would be a rather shocking pun-ishment
I've always thought a play on words in the first act that sets up an event in a later act as a Chekhov's pun.
Chekhov's pun is also the name of my trivia team.
Brendan Carlton good one.
Brendan Carlton fucking brilliant
+
what a loaded payoff
Making puns before being hung? That's some gallows humor
Aidan Lewis
They say humor can help in grave situations.
That's not a pun. That's the textbook definition and origin of the term.
Aidan Lewis yes it is
You do know they call it gallows humor because people were kept alive once condemned to the gallows only for as long as they kept the crowd laughing, right?
Just don't have to be hung up about it.
My uncle thinks all life began in the Balkans. He's a croationist.
Your mom's a croationist
@@lelouchvibritannia7809
Go serb another job
Best pun so far, fine work sir
One of my favorites is from Shawshank Redemption when the day before his escape, Red tells Andy, "Aw, those ain't nothin' but shitty pipe dreams."
Holy Shit. That is one of my favorite movies of all time and I never caught that reference!
I love how a video about puns is packed with visual puns.
Yeah I saw them Sage. I saw them...
I'm glad!
He didnt really attempt to make them subtle, at least I don't hope so
Just Write said as he quickly and magically transformed into a garbage bag
Did anyone not see them?
You made me rewatch the video, and now I'm astounded
"How can you use a pun without making people roll their eyes?"
I thought that was the whole point behind a pun.
Bee Movie existed all because of the title AND NOTHING ELSE. I'm not kidding! They green-lit the film long before they even had a story to tell -_-
Dash more like meme movie
My friend, they made the entire MOVIE before there was a story to tell.
Oh my god. I never got the pun until I read this.
I'd still say it was a decent film regardless of where it started from, not exactly A rank material, but I'd still grade it as a C+
The title and banking on the comedy of Jerry Seinfeld.
You almost caught me out but anyone who's studied writing knows it's Save the cat. Well punned good sir
Did you hear about the sensative burglar?
He takes things personally. 😏😁
Hey, you heard of that italian chef? He pasta way!
Purple Poet11 my extra sensitive toothpaste gets mad when I use other toothpastes.
Did you hear about the phycopath who threw a party?
It was killer
Puns are amazing, I don't understand why people think they are so great and above it all because they don't like puns; puns are top notch
Especially now, where everything is simply referential. Puns are great, and can sparkle ones words
But i totally agree, when they are forced it really takes the wit out of the equation and just makes them dry
So I can understand when people don't like those sorts of puns
Agree
I've always loved puns. One of my favorites from AD is:
Lucille: I want you out of the house
Oscar: Oh I want you everywhere
Here's some hot tea for my hottie!
Puns are awesome. I live for them.
So, making puns illegal would be a capital punishment for you.
haha... pun-ishment.
ahhh beautiful
@@Alkemisti We already have capital punishment. It's spelled PUNISHMENT.
I'm amazed how you didn't mention the money in the banana stand when talking about characters being victims of ambiguous language
My brain is messed up.
There's nothing left in my right brain, & nothing right in my left brain.
Underrated big brain comment here.
it took me 16 years to realize Shanghai Noon was a pun
that makes me the stupid one, what's the pun! is there no noon in shanghai... I don't get it. I'm always the one who doesn't get it....
Alexis Schlenk - Shang "High Noon"
I don't get it, can you explain?
Eileen Liew oh my god I just realized
Alexis Schlenk yes, there is no noon in Shanghai.
And here I am, desperately googling for a book titled "Shave the cat".
Didn't even question that title until you mentioned it.
The rel book is Save the Cat.
Good Read.
Sir David Payne it's a waste, shave your time and skip it
In the book "Save The Cat", the author refers to a "Save The Cat" moment as an action a protagonist takes in during their introduction that makes them likable and therefore become someone to root for.
Archer and Bob's Burgers are the current kings of puns...
"Phrasing, BOOM"
Sorry, but if it's a pun race then I'm backing BoJack Horseman all the way.
Excuse me but I just discovered your channel and I think it's outstanding. Please keep making new content!
Will do. It's been a long hiatus, but I'm working on new stuff.
James Collopy same
Just Write the pun fanta sea has been realized. Soon, we shall take the world by storm!
I've got this crush.
He makes puns all the time.
He is the center of like every pun war ever.
I can't pun.
Thank you for saving me from embarrassment every day.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the comment about forced puns and maybe that's the connection with the bad reputation. Perhaps society is reluctant to reward any behaviour that seems forced. From puns to political candidates, we're more comfortable (obsessed?) with perceived "naturalness" or "authenticity". Anyway, thoughtful video. Oh, what the hake...I can salmon up a few puns before I go, it's not like I'm reinventing the whale, right?
I dunno, it kind of hooks like you might be fishing for likes with those puns...
Stop! Your Kraken me up.
That was one of the most well made puns I’ve heard in a while. I can sea you put a lot of time into making them
Whale whale whale, what do we have here.....
I appreciate the levels of puns in this: the visual puns, the puns in your script, and even your channel name "just write". Great on so many levels. 🖒
Just Write is the pundit we deserve.
Pun intended.
Pun unintended.
Punintended.
"Drop a pun into your water cooler conversation and you'll instantly become a social piranha."
r/BoneAppleTea.
Theodore Pinnock It’s because he’s talking about water. That’s the pun!
I thought he was really fishing with that joke. At least it didn't become a running gag...
How do you make Lady Gaga cry?
You poke 'er face.
ITS 2017 NO ONE CARES
You brake her legs.
you kill her family.
that's not a pun.
Jaydon J. I mean yeah
Lel I get it :3
I usually get called a weird one for always enjoying and frequently making puns. This video was gold.
Hey Sage, you've been gone quite a while, where you been Hyden?
That pun needs another layer.
"Say, Beethoven, we haven't seen you in a while?"
"I've been Haydn."
‘Judges punned in their judgments.’
They were just kidding.
In the part where your examination of overselling a pun can rob it of its inherent comedy, it's telling the example you used had me doubled over laughing my ass off. Just the pun payoff, holding on the moment like it was the greatest mic drop of all time, the slow push-in on the face, the misguided anticipation of waiting for laughter that will never come, Sooo Good. I like your purposeful use of irony here.
Oh, btw: if you need an ark to save your pet, not to name drop, but .... I Noah guy.
What did King Arthur dub his overweight knight?
Sir Cumference!
wow, this video is fully pun ctuated by visual puns. Sorry, but this fact shouldn't be frowned upun.
Giordano Pagotti those were Golden...
upun xD
10/10 my man
HAAHHAHAHAHHAHAAAA
So there were a whole fuck ton of dudes whose last words were just puns back in the day? Awesome
i read an article about famous last words once that was great. one man, of the last name French, was going to be executed by electric chair. his last words were, "how about this for a headline tomorrow boys? French Fries." XD
Your vids are SO well done! Thanks for making such great content!
"assidentally"... I loved it
Puns are only funny when they have relation to context. Just replacing words with similar sounding words for no reason is stupid.
@TheTekOr Oleg Precisely.
@TheTekOr Oleg Precisely.
@@micahwright5901 Precisely
@heyim dj Princessly
@@abdulmasaiev9024 Princess Lee
I won't read that book. I've heard it's tear-able.
I've just discovered this channel, and I must say that I really like your work. Please continue doing what you are. It's amazing.
I love how you inserted those little visual puns:D
Great vid man:P
"The police arrested two kids, one was eating batteries and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let-off the other."
"Two TV antenna got married. The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was excellent."
"Did you hear about the pimp who couldn't spell? He bought a warehouse."
I should punish myself for looking in the comment section
This is punishment enough
I came here mainly because of the video you made in response to Nerdwriter's intertexutuality argument, and I must say I'm very impressed. This was an insightful video, and I really like the way you present your ideas and all. Keep up the good work! :)
Also I love that you included Arrested Development!
This is brilliantly put together. Bravo - you've earned a new subscriber!
I really enjoy your videos. Hope you upload a video soon. Happy new year! :)
My favorite pun happened on an Outside Xtra video. I forget exactly how it went, but they were discussing Assassin's Creed Origins, and Egyptian gods, and Ellen said, "Anubis would happen," for "I knew this would happen." The delivery was perfect. It was pure comedy gold.
LOL!!! All the puns you used while you spoke ! Great vid ,I love puns
This video is so full of puns, and your channel name is even a pun. It's so perfect for the video!
Please tell me that this channel moved somewhere else and didn't just stop. I really fell in love with this...
Hey! Glad you enjoy the videos. Got new stuff coming soon!
Thank god, this channel has been an inspiration to start making my own content. I look forward to see what the future holds for this channel. It's been really helpful with my own work in writing.
When I make puns I don't emphasize them so that if somebody catches it it will be funnier.
I LOVE this post! 🤩🤩 It is said that punning is the art of taking the literal figuratively and the figurative literally.
The way you were able to stitch your point and puns together was absolutely punderfull. Some may think it was too excessive, but I thought it was just write.
Gob seeing George Michael and Maeby kissing: "Oh my god, dad's gonna be crushed". Then proceeds to check his father in the basement after the living room collapsed
that moment when the word pun is one of the harder words to pun with
dr.kirby well there are puntiful ones..
how punfortunate
I think my help is:
craP, UNnecessary, and ill-intentioned
Non Johns don't need to punder on the negative now..
Wow, your puns suck. Just as your punctuation.
Love the editing in this video.
That foreshadowing pun was pure gold
Birth control is a condom missed conception. I came up with that last summer and it was basically the highlight of my year.
Do a video about the Dark Knight trilogy... Btw just discovered you yesterday and you've earned a new subscriber! Your videos are great keep it up!
This was PUNtastic! Everything was so well orchestrated and the visual cues played in concert that I'm sure all your puns will be pardoned and treated with imPUNity!
nice vids man you deserve more subs. Keep doing you.
Jesus did puns. Already funnier than Amy Schumer.
Amy Schumer? More like Amy POOmer!
Hell, the old testament is funnier than Amy Schumer
Takashiari more like Amy Shoo-mer, am I right?
Hell, hell is funnier than Amy Schumer!
Not to mention the ultimate prank of “dying” for three days. Frickin legend, Jesus is
Puns are amazing when they are clever and subtle. They rely on your audience to be following what you are saying closely and help relate disparate ideas to each other.
What people do today is just shitty comedy. Puns that require you to pause before saying them, or give everyone the "ehh" or suggesting glance are insulting to your audience and attention seeking. Puns which don't actually cleverly tie two ideas together to create a more cohesive whole are just lazy (how is renaissance and pens related? How does this relationship elevate the sentence?).
In the Peter-Rock pun, this elevates the sentence because it points out the fact that Peter is a rock, and thus a stable foundation. It adds new insightful meaning to the sentence rather than just showing that you realize two words sound similar.
Don Reynolds yup
I see yout point, but your words cut deep. You must take care not weaponize your words when you seek to punish someone.
I think the puns where people make a pause before are intentionally done to annoy
Because they didn't type at that time, they wrote with pen and ink
Thanks! I love making puns and I was unsure whether to use them or not.
I just love the visual puns throughout this video, it's really makes a point of the Pun/Intelligence connection
I'm always dropping puns. My friends tell me to stop but Drawn to Ice Hockey stops for pucking no one!
Another movie title with subtle word play is "Cast Away" in which Tom Hanks plays a castaway who has been cast away back home.
Many people don't even catch it, and I often see people write it out as "Castaway" instead of "Cast Away."
My favorite cinema pun is the one-word triple-pun in The Chronicles of Riddick... "Skiddish"... brilliant...
"Buried pleasure". So many puns in this vid. Love it.
I unapologetically laugh at every pun I hear. The 🧀-ier the better. 🤣🤣🤣
Beverly Tenhagen
That would make some people very cross.
What? You said the hole-ier the better...
Oh look it's my thyme to shine
better?
more like cheddar.
I love Steven Universe so much, he's soooo bad at puns.. like me.
Moon Along My Head
maybe cz u r a part of him... u know.. u beung moon n him beding universe 😂
Glad to see Shakespeare mentioned in a video about puns. And reference of puns to its general definition of a word with double meaning. In that sense, I accidentally write puns all the times (don't ask how you accidentally write puns).
a paper i really, really love is "Dangerous Doubles: Puns and Language in Shakespeare’s Hamlet"
A social pariah, not piranha.
watch IT crowd
how is the King's Speech a pun?
it's a pun because, going into it, you think it's a movie about the King's famous WWII speech to the nation. But you learn that really it's about how the King got over his speech impediment. So the phrase "the king's speech" refers to two different types of "speech"
Because it's a film about a speech the king makes, and the king's speech imepdiment.
Honestly, I only realised this on watching the video. And it blew my mind
orfeas he can't
More of a double entendre.
Sometimes when I want to say "for example" I'll say something such as "such as" for example.
This is my favorite of your videos!!!
Puns are such an anglophone thing.
Not true, actually. There are a number of languages where puns are popular.
Well they're not in my language.
Nessie Andrew We have puns in My language (and the language is not English) ask me What it is. If you dare 😏
They are everywhere in danish.
Nessie Andrew Not true, they exist in many languages. I use them all the time in my mother tongue
After watching this video, I see why you changed your name to Just Write. Brilliant.
I respect how many puns you sneaked into the commentary
Wow never at all noticed the double meaning in the King’s Speech. I mean that’s incredible. Sure to a lot of people it’s obvious but it’s such a subtle piece of word play. That is fantastic
I’m so happy someone made a video essay about arrested development
I was totally expecting an ancient scribe in scuba gear at the subscribe card at the end
The Kirby right back at ya cartoon was the god of subtle puns
Terry Pratchett Soul Music was a story about loss, the five stage of grief and family reuniting. And he told it all in pun form. It was awesome.
B-Leafed made me nearly choke of sudden laughter... I still love puns if well placed... that was brilliant
easily the best written video ive ever seen - holy mother of puns
Your delivery of those puns was done Just Write!
And a pun without a second layer is what you might call a 'peanutbutter and jelly'-pun...
I really enjoy your videos. Hope you upload a video soon. Happy new year!
idk y but the concept of using puns as foreshadow just blew my mind.
I love your vids man ;)
My favourite pun is one I came up with: I tell people that the son of Kate McGarrigle and a descendant of the inventors of the airplane had a kid together, and that to acknowledge his illustrious heritage they're calling him Wayne Wright-Wainwright.
Then I say that he might be given away to be raised by Batman, in which case he'd feel compelled to take his foster father's name, which would make him Wayne Wright Wainwright-Wayne, right?
Looking for puns, as I have a little grouo of friends that we share puns, anyway, this is how I found your channel. I am more than a pun lover, I love to write and I'm so glad I found your channel. Now pardon the txt here, it's in the middle of the night, I'm exhausted and don't have my glasses on, so I'm working on very bad vision 😂 buy I'm really excited to be able to go thru your other videos soon.
This is absolutely fantastic!!!!
Pixar made the two best puns this side of Shakespeare imo.
2nd Place: Naming the generation ship in Wall-E The Axiom. They had to know that some hard sci-fi minded fans were going to point out that the ship was not particularly realistic. Most people don’t know what “axiom” means, so just assumed that it was a pretty, futuristic nonsense name. But anyone likely to criticize the believability would recognize that they’d already considered the objections and said Just Go With It. Flattering and admonitory at the same time, only visible to the people who need to hear it, just a gorgeous pun.
1st Place (spoilers?): The ending of Toy Story 3. I don’t often like the literary device of Deus Ex Machina, BUT the little green aliens have worshipped *The Claw* since the first movie. Them getting sidetracked by the giant crane Claw was a tiny throwaway moment before the final action sequence. Then when they swoop in and rescue the other toys from their inescapable doom with very little foreshadowing, it becomes a literal (in-universe) God In The Machine enacting a God From The Machine.
A subtle, meta, self aware pun *ten years* in the making.
*chef’s kiss
Jackie: I thought you died.
Tucker: Detective Yu?