After the success of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Kaplan follows this up with an equally insightful book, The Comic Hero’s Journey. This time, Kaplan veers away from the more general successful tools and techniques of comedy (although he does incorporate several of the familiar tools learnt such as the non-hero, winning and positive action) and instead […]
The Comic equation: ‘Comedy is about an ordinary guy or gal struggling against insurmountable odds without many of the required skills and tools of comedy with which to win yet never giving up hope.’ Without a doubt Steve Kaplan is an extremely accomplished comedy expert; working with countless comedic masterminds and teaching at respected schools […]
In this new series titled The Genre Format Series (Working Title) Extraordinaire meet your favourite comedy genre dustbusters Kathryn Butt and Dušan Mrden. They will try their best to break down movie genres and bring you some helpful tips and tricks that might or might not work for you! Comedy can be very subjective and it’s […]
“If it weren’t for the brief respite we give the world with our foolishness, the world would see mass suicide in numbers that compare favourably with the death rate of lemmings.” – Groucho Marx In the 21st Century comedy based media takes its place as a dominative force within consumer culture and entertainment. Comedic television, movies […]
What does it mean to make somebody laugh? YOU know you’re hilarious, but Comedy, as a genre, is hard. Going into the specific tastes of somebody’s humour is convoluted and confusing territory, one that is, too often, dismissed with cheap and easy jokes. Successful comedy writing today includes an intricate understanding of comedic beats, conventional […]
Let’s start off with a test. A Comedy Perception Test, to see if we’re perceiving comedy with 20-20 vision. Below are seven sentences, seven word?pictures. They don’t mean anything other than what they are. There’s no back story. Read them carefully. A. Man slipping on a banana peel. B. Man wearing a top hat slipping […]
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