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A comedic Campaign, interesting or no?

I'm working on a campaign.  It's a comedic adventure, puns, reference humor, and dad jokes sprinkled throughout. A punchline kind of twist ending. A few wacky characters.  And enough combat to leave you in stitches. Is there any kind of interest in this kind of game?  I didn't know if anyone cared for a less conventional game, a Wizards, Warlocks, and Whoopie Cushions kind of game. What do you think?
The first TTRPG I ever played was Tales from the Floating Vagabond, and it is still one of my fondest roleplaying memories. Depending on the time you plan to run things I am totally in.
Sounds like a pretty good idea.Depending on the time I'm totally down for it.
Be very careful about managing expectations here. There are many categories of comedic games, including but not limited to: -Between every three hour number crunchy gamey encounter, I tell a joke. Also the bad guys have silly names. -You win the combat by telling jokes! If it's funny enough, the enemy dies of laughter! -Combat is shortened and the time between combat is lengthened, because that's the funniest part! -Everyone shut up and listen to my jokes! Also, roll when I tell you to. -You all start in a tavern, now let's destroy that tavern in the most entertaining way possible! Don't worry, I've planned out what happens after the city burns down.
I was hoping for a heavier role-play type game, there will be some crunchy combat but if all goes according to plan(I know, heh)the players will find themselves in unusual and humorous situation that they can cut their way out of but don't have to.
For humor, I've found it's best to be the straightman. PCs by nature do weird, unexpected things; your job is to give them odd enough situations to react to. Paranoia has 1/3 of its game modes centered around comedy; the other ones are dystopia and "so horrible it's funny" dystopia.
Golden B, so true! You'll never out-funny the PCs, so don't even try? One of my funniest lines as a GM was "WHAT!?" and it was funny because any normal human would probably responded a lot worse.
I'm also considering the potential for visual humor with the Virtual Tabletop.  For instance, when you step on a pressure plate and admiral Ackbars face appears beneath you.
I would totally be interested in playing this type of game, Goofy amidst serious seems like it would be a pretty enjoyable campaign! If you come up with a good time/day, feel free to let me know!
in my experience as a dm the best way to make a comedic game is not to make the game comedic, but instead make it.... odd. A straight by-the-book adventure tends to lends itself to seriousness, and an adventure where the dm tries to be comedic tends to loose all seriousness and the players go do whatever. An odd adventure lends itself to players reacting in odd way, and its in these reactions that true comedy is born. There have been times where we had to end a game early because half my players were incapacitated from laughter, a result that I could never have gotten if I put in a joke, reference, or pun. Basically, instead of trying to insert comedy, insert situations where players can make comedy themselves.
This sounds like a lot of fun. My only questions are... -what day will the sessions be? -what time will they start? -what system will we be using?
I'm not sure when I'll be done with it yet. I'm still mapping it out and populating the maps. I'm very new to Roll20 and am learning as I go so getting it all together is kinda slow going. As for system I'm setting it up in 5e. As soon as I get the first leg of the adventure done I'll Resurrect this thread like  a Necromancer with abandonment issues.