Comedy Writing

Comedy is hard. Movie comedy writing is very hard, and is done well by relatively few writers. That's good news. But why is movie comedy more difficult than it appears.

Most writers come to comedy from the joke. The gag. The small. So they write scripts that have some funny jokes up front, and then the script hits "the wall." It's not funny anymore.

Movie comedy isn't small, it's big. Two hours long. Think of writing movie comedy as building an extension bridge. You've got to extend a line over a huge distance. That story line is what you hang your jokes on. Without a strong comic storyline, even the best jokes will fall flat.

Movie comedy is about comedy structures. Comedy in general differs from serious drama in how the story is told. But even more so, comedy has at least seven different structures, each with very different story beats from the others.

Typically, the most popular movie comedies are combinations of genres or structures. For example, "Tootsie" was a combination of romantic comedy and farce. Men in Black was a combination of comedy and science fiction.

This 6-hour COMEDY WRITING COURSE is among the most popular at Truby's Writers Studio because it gives you all the techniques. We guarantee you won't find a third of them anywhere else. This is a monster course, covering comic characters, movie comedy structures, all the beats of the major comedy sub-genres, comedy dialogue and much, much more. If you are serious about your comedy writing, you owe it to yourself to take this course.

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