Why i write funny. .

You People might think from looking at some of my stuff that i have been reading alot of shakespear.
And to that assumption i would be only slightly embarressed to admit that i have been.
Not shakespeare, but Romantic translations of plays from the famous Greek Playwrights. Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and Plato.

It was i think last summer, i sat down and listened to the audio recording of "Prometheus bound", after having been doing a homework assignment on Prometheus, and the myth of his crime against the ancient greek gods. I really only started listening because i needed information on why he was being punished, which was cited in the first parable of the play. But i ended up listening to the entire three act play.
And oh-meh-good was it not great! It was awesome!! It blew my entire 3 years of school english right out of the fish barrel! And that is including every shakespearian play those classes shoved down my throat(basically all of them)

It was so good, that i started looking for other translated greek plays, and ended up finding a whole mess of greek plays(written amongst the greek legends and myths, but still more historically and nonfictionally aligned) that also blew any given shakespear piece far far away...

The translations of Antigone, The Bacchae, Prometheus Bound, & Electra all had a major impact on my writing. The language used to describe the circumstances and the events that take place in the story may come off at first as funny, and rediculous.. but as they get into their long monolouges and batty bickerings the authors enhance the meaning of the speech by weaving pretty paintings throughout the dialouge.
The language was so pretty, that i think i may have absorbed some of the phrases and lingos into the subliminal background of my writing psyche. I catch myself alot of times while writing down my thoughts, going into middle age romantic speech like the speak from Hamlet, or Romeo and Juliet. Or if i have a brainstorm about a topic, it is set in romantic speech. Sometimes it even slips into my verbal communication with people...

However, this fancy speech impediment of mine is only a minor fad that will eventually fade into something else. It's not in all of my stuff. Definitley in some tho.. :"
But!..
I would definetly reccomend reading or listening to some greek tragedy, for any if those writers who have not already. Not only are many of them pretty interesting, but the linguistics used can be a pretty helpful template for any sort of writing in general.

And just as a general tip/advisement shakespear = sucks
Greek playwrights = Legitimate

You can check them out on any free web book or audio book site that offers classic liturature. Or at the library. Most are pretty popular, and can usually be found in any sortve book establishment.