The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit
Published on 30. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-6629-5148-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit is a highly practical and inspiring collection of creative tools for funnier sitcoms, comedy dramas, sketches, short films, and screenplays.
Chris Head, a seasoned comedy director and writing coach, takes a profound plunge into the art and craft of comedy scriptwriting. With insightful examples from iconic comedies, you'll discover how to create compelling and comedically flawed characters, craft jokes, create comic dialogue and action, and construct hilarious scenes and stories.
With practical writing exercises and expert guidance, The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit is your roadmap to transforming your comedic ideas into better, sharper and, above all, funnier scripts.
If you write comedy scripts, this is the book you need.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6629-5148-0 (9781662951480)
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CHRIS HEAD teaches comedy writing for BBC Writers, the British Library, Bath Spa University and to writers worldwide on Zoom. He mentors writers with Lucy Lumsden, former BBC Head of Comedy Commissioning, and directs stage comedy shows, including stand-up, plays and character comedy. He is the author of Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen and A Director's Guide to the Art of Stand-up published by Bloomsbury Methuen.