Tuesday, October 23, 2007

What it takes go make it work...

Writing comedy is not easy. You can write a million jokes and only a few will actually get a laugh from your audience. It is much more difficult to write it than to write something like drama or horror. Your audience will come and eat up anything you have to give them if you write a drama with a story. But if you write comedy, you have to cater to them, and tailor to what they find funny and what they like. Some people laugh at some things, and others at other things. If you write it and say to yourself, and say "I personally don't find it funny," then you're doing something wrong with your writing. This article is basically a collage of a bunch of comedy writers and comedians who talk about being successful in writing comedy. A lot of them have a background in comedy and have wanted to write or become comedians since they've been young. And most of them say that writing comedy cannot detract from the story involved with it. And as Harold Ramis says, "Getting a big, important laugh requires a big, important subject."

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