Hidden Tools For Writing A Comedy Screenplay - Steve Kaplan [FULL INTERVIEW]

0:00 - What Is Comedy? What Writers Need To Know
13:57 - Difference Between Being Funny And Writing Funny
24:21 - Comedy Is Not Meant To Be Read
34:39 - What Makes Someone Laugh?
50:16 - How To Write A Great Comic Premise
1:01:53 - Writers Need To Lie In Order To Tell The Truth
1:16:37 - 3 Mistakes Writers Make In Act 1 That Ruin A Story
1:31:41 - 7 Stages Of The Comic Hero's Journey
1:48:09 - How To Write A Comic Protagonist
1:54: 45 - 15 Comedy Characters Writers Should Know
2:06:10 - How To Write A Great Buddy Comedy

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Steve Kaplan is the author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy and The Comic Hero's Journey, best-sellers in their field. He's working on a third book about writing comedy for television.

In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other universities, Steve created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. In addition to development projects for HBO, he has taught workshops online and around the globe and at companies such as DreamWorks, Disney Animation, Aardman Animation, and NBC's Writers on the Verge. Steve has worked as a script consultant and script editor for productions companies, studios, directors and individual writers.

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