You may think that a Crapsack World like Roshar is full of doom and gloom with all its Hostile Weather and Bizarre Seasons. But within this series, you can find some good comic relief thanks to Sanderson's decidedly snarky sense of humour...
- Funny moments for The Way of Kings are here.
- Funny moments for Words of Radiance are here.
- Funny moments for Oathbringer are here.
- Funny moments for Rhythm of War are here.
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- The working title of the second book was at one point Book of Endless Pages. Sanderson changed it because the jokes were too obvious.
- In The Way of Kings (2010), we see Jasnah Soulcast a brigand into fire. When we find out how Soulcasting actually works (you have to talk to the object, cajole and convince it to change), audiences wondered what Jasnah could possibly offer to convince a man to turn into fire. Lots of people joked that maybe she just ordered him to do it. Then we see a Soulcasting from her perspective...and that's basically how she does it."You," she commanded, "will change."
"I am a rope," one of them said. "I am—"
"You will change."
The ropes shivered, transforming—one by one—into smoke in the physical realm. - Meta example: When it was pointed out on his Twitter that, by sheer accident, Sanderson had written Shallan in a way that, to many fans, made them think she was bisexual, his reaction essentially equated to "sure, why not?", and he accepted the idea.
- And on a similar note, some fans later pointed out to Sanderson that
there isn't necessarily anything stopping someone from having their spren manifest as not just a sword, and instead as, say, a dildo. Cue Sanderson's one-word exasperated response: "Sigh."
- And on a similar note, some fans later pointed out to Sanderson that
- For years, fans have been clamoring that Kaladin needs therapy. In Rhythm he invents therapy... and refuses to go himself.
- In Dawnshard, Lopen accidentally swears an Ideal again. He doesn't hate anyone, so the traditional third Windrunner Ideal ("I will protect even those I hate") doesn't work for him. But when he realizes that his cousin sometimes resents him for his unkind pranks, he resolves to protect people from himself—and that turns out to be enough.Lopen: Storm me! You did it again? I almost died out there, and you accept the Words now?
Stormfather: It is the right time.
Lopen: Where's the drama? The sense of timing? You're terrible at this, penhito!
Stormfather: I take offense at that. Be glad for what you have.
