Mining Your Life for Laughter: Humor Writing Workshop with Bob Balmer

Want to inject some humor into your writing? This class at BARN is designed to improve your comedic writing skills.

Led by humorist Bob Balmer, this course studies successful humor writers and examines what makes people laugh. You'll learn time-tested techniques for transforming odd, embarrassing, memorable, and absurd moments into humorous passages.

Bob Balmer's first humorous essay was published in The Oregonian in 1992. Since then, his work has appeared in numerous national and regional newspapers and magazines, and on radio shows such as The Savvy Traveler and MarketPlace.