The Ultra Mega Huge List of
Humor Writing Formats
For humorists, creative writers, and marketers who want on-demand inspiration
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Meet the Mega List
Your go-to resource for choosing a humor writing format!
Take a sneak peek inside the first few pages of the list. (We’ll bill you later.)
Congratulations! You have found the largest, awesomest, and most ridiculously comprehensive list of humor writing formats.
This humor format list is for several types of people:
- Humor writers who want exposure to new formats they haven’t tried before
- Creative writers of all stripes who want to dip their toes into the humor world and would like to see tons of categorized examples of humor writing
- Marketers, copywriters, and other professional writers who want to explore humorous writing in their professional work
- All fans of huge-ass taxonomies of things
Conveniently, the list lives in GoogleDocs. So if and when we add even more to it, you’ll already have access.
We created this list because it’s a resource that we wanted for ourselves. Now you can have it too!
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HUMOR NERDS WHO WORKED ON THIS
Who made the Mega List?
Alex Baia
Alex Baia is a humor writer, a comedy podcaster, and the owner of a boutique marketing service. He has written dozens of humor pieces for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Austin Monthly, Eater, Points In Case, and other fine publications.
Since 2018, he has edited the indie humor site Slackjaw on Medium. In his capacity as an editor, Alex has read scores of humor pieces. How many? The answer is 13,404.
Alex also runs the world’s coolest free monthly humor newsletter, which is delivered by a majestic falcon. You can spy more of his work at alexbaia.com.
Lianna Patch
Lianna Patch is a conversion copywriter and comedian at punchlinecopy.com (you know, the site you’re reading right now). She genuinely loves writing copy that makes customers pause, smile, and click.
Trained in the not-so-dark arts of buyer psychology and customer research, Lianna specializes in punchy, engaging landing pages and email copy for ecommerce and software clients, including Freshbooks, Igloo, Manly Bands, Loop Returns, Balsamiq, and TinySeed.
Her work and insights have been featured by Copy Hackers, HubSpot, Shopify, BigCommerce, CXL, and more impressive publications whose names she hopes you know. She also regularly speaks at ecommerce and software conferences around the world, even when they ask her not to.
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