Jerry Seinfeld – How to Write a Joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWxXyCfW5s
What do you find funny?
Start the laughs immediately. The first line should be
funny.
It’s like songwriting. Focus on beats and rhythm.
The biggest laugh for a long joke must always come at the
end.
“The wronger something feels, the righter it is.”
Ricky Gervais – How I learned to write
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJyDe7a2bo
Write about what you know.
Big, grand stories may be exciting but they’re not honest.
“trying to make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better
than starting with the extraordinary.”
What’s real and relatable to one person will be relatable to
many more.
Try to make the audience as excited as you are.
SAM BAIN AND JESSE ARMSTRONG COMEDY WRITING MASTERCLASS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-01rh4yNb5U
If you’ve got something that works – make it longer
It doesn’t matter if you fail 9 times if you succeed once
Don’t sacrifice character integrity for a joke
In episodic pieces Start with episode 3
Casting IS key
If your character is written correctly, any dramatic
situation can also be comedic
Plots don’t need to be funny, characters and dialogue do
If you don’t believe or care, change!
Know the tone of whatever you’re writing
Make sure the story is always the focus
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