Comedy writing is sometimes compared to songwriting: in music, every note is important; in comedy, every word, even every syllable can be critical.
There are lots of classes about writing funny; this one is about what funny is â its mechanics, its principles. And while comedy people certainly vary in their ability to articulate those principles, they all take them seriously and refer to them constantly (âCall-backâs too soonâ; âSet-upâs got too many wordsâ).
This webinar has no direct instruction but rather takes a deep dive into the comedy principles which are, in fact, the basic principles of every art form: tension and resolution, pattern disruption, misdirection and surprise. And weâll see how these principles achieve their effects by looking at examples ranging from Buster Keaton to Richard Pryor to Amy Schumer. Â
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David Misch
David Misch is an author (âFunny: The Book,â âA Beginnerâs Guide To Corruptionâ), screenwriter (âMork & Mindy,â âSaturday Night Live,â âThe Muppets Take Manhattanâ), teacher (his own courses on comedy at USC and musical satire at UCLA) and lecturer (Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm, Yale, the Smithsonian, Oxford, University of Sydney, Raindance Film Festival (London), Austin Film Festival, American Film Institute, Second City, Actors Studio). More at davidmisch.com.
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