The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not

The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not

Comedy is not magic, not inspiration, not a â€œgift.â€ Mostly, itâ€™s simple rules and structuresâ€”the logic of the illogicalâ€”tools that anyone can use.

The Comic Toolbox is a straightforward, often humorous, workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem solving. In it, veteran Hollywood comedy writer John Vorhaus offers his tools of the trade to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea.

Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain (the essence of the comic situation), that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy (kill your ferocious editor within and rich, useful comic ideas will flow), and much, much more.

With Vorhausâ€™ tools in hand, anyone can be funny.
Country USA
Manufacturer Silman-James Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-12-15
Format Kindle eBook

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