The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit
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The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit
The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit is a highly practical and inspiring collection of creative tools for funnier sitcoms, comedy dramas, sketches, short films, and screenplays. Chris Head, a seasoned comedy director and writing coach, takes a profound plunge into the art and craft of comedy scriptwriting. With insightful examples from iconic comedies, you'll discover how to create compelling and comedically flawed characters, craft jokes, create comic dialogue and action, and construct hilarious scenes and stories. With practical writing exercises and expert guidance, The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit is your roadmap to transforming your comedic ideas into better, sharper and, above all, funnier scripts. If you write comedy scripts, this is the book you need. Book Review 1: "His understanding of comedy is captivating, encyclopaedic." -- Will Gompertz, former BBC Arts Editor Book Review 2: “Head’s style is refreshingly breezy and simultaneously substantial." -- Choice, USA Book Review 3: "The ideal person to nurture new talent" -- The Guardian
The Hidden Tools of Comedy
A paradigm shift in understanding the mechanics and art of comedy, providing practical tools that help writers translate that understanding into successful, commercial scripts. Kaplan deconstructs secrets and techniques in popular films and TV that work and don't work, and explains what tools were used (or should have been used ).
Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen
This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet sketches, it offers all kinds of useful advice on creating comic narratives for stage and screen: using life experience as raw material; constructing comedy worlds; creating comic characters, their relationships and interactions; structuring sketches, scenes and routines; and developing and plotting stories. The book's interviewees, from the UK and the USA, feature stand-ups, sketch comics, improvisers and TV comedy producers, and include Steve Kaplan, Hollywood comedy guru and author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Will Hines teacher and improviser from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Lucy Lumsden TV producer and former Controller of Comedy Commissioning for BBC. Written by “the ideal person to nurture new talent” (The Guardian), Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage & Screen includes material you won't find anywhere else and is a stimulating resource for comedy students and their teachers, with a range and a depth that will be appreciated by even the most eclectic and multi-hyphenated writers and performers.