How to Write a Comedic Character Whose Backstory Gets Weirder Every Time They Tell It
by Turning Exaggerated Origins into a Running Joke Machine
Author: Hanae Mizuno
Hanae Mizuno is a Tokyo-based humor essayist and ESL pun coach. Her webcomic ?Kanji Comedians? is used in Japanese-English classrooms and once got banned in a monastery for being ?too cheeky.?
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