How To Be A Comedy Writer
Secrets from the Inside
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2021
112 pages
978-1-84989-231-5 (ISBN)
Description
Think you're funny? Writing successful comedy isn't just about having a gift for gags; you need to hone your talent and polish your humour to earn a living from making people laugh. If you want to write stand-up comedy, sketches, sitcoms or even a comic novel or film, How to be a Comedy Writer tells you all you need to know and more about the business, the structure of jokes and the nuts and bolts of a craft that can be learnt. This new ebook edition has been specially formatted for today's e-readers.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Introduction
- How To Be A Comedy Writer
- Comedy Basics
- Why laugh?
- Forms of humour
- Live Comedy
- Stand-up
- Character comedy
- Live sketch shows
- The comedy play
- Recorded Comedy
- Screen basics
- Broken comedy
- Sitcom
- Screenplays
- Published Comedy
- Joke books
- The comedy novel
- The Business Of Comedy
- Aspects of the job
- Writer's block
- Topical gags
- Writing on spec
- Stand-up
- Sketches
- Edinburgh
- Plays
- Sitcom/comedy drama
- Screenplays
- Submitting the comedy book
- Submitting the comedy novel
- Agents
- Resources
- Also Available
