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JER, I’m more of a numbers girls (engineer, what?) so I’m aiming for more of a sports analyst angle with my Round 2 entry. I love reading sports writer’s opinions, so I’m hoping to skew more to that end if I’m picked to continue writing for EN.[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I look forward to reading your posts. 
EN tried that one last year. It was wretchedly unfunny. I emailed John about it and told him it was an embarrassment. The talking horse was either struck mute or put out of its misery because it disappeared thereafter.
The talking horse thing shouldn’t be attempted by anyone who doesn’t have the comedy chops to be a staff writer on The Simpsons. And even then, probably not.
Very likely but best of luck to you anyway.
The issue here for me is that most of these self-professed horse humorists are mediocre at best, and their tropes are thoroughly predictable and unoriginal.
Comedy is a genre. Within it there are myriad sub-genres. Sometimes you find the funny by being original in the genre, sometimes the humor is found in subverting or extending or manipulating the familiar form. But hurling out tired tropes, whether it’s haiku or talking horses, amounts to tedium and mediocrity. You might come up with a clever line or two, but anyone can do that.
(I write this having spent most of my professional life in small rooms for hours on end with writers, directors, producers, and other so-called creative types trying to think up better dialogue and better ideas, tossing out countless variations on plot points large and minute, coming back to the same lines over and over again, being told it needs to be funnier, and then ripping out all the wires and doing it all over again the next day. And this is what it is to be successful in that field.)
What I want to read about on EN is eventing. I would hope that aspiring EN bloggers think they have something to offer the EN readership in terms of how they relate to the sport, rather than because they want more people to chuckle at their horse funnies.
