Elements of comedy
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The document discusses different elements of comedy including comic timing, slapstick, and pregnant pauses. Comic timing involves using rhythm and pacing to enhance jokes and humor. Slapstick refers to exaggerated physical comedy like getting hit with a frying pan. A pregnant pause is a technique where a pause is used to accentuate a comedy element. The document also provides tips for performing comedy such as knowing where the laughs are and leaving room for audience reaction.
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COMEDY FOR NEUROTICS A Practical Guide to Writing Funnier.docx
COMEDY FOR NEUROTICS:
A Practical Guide to Writing Funnier Screenplays
and Stage Plays and Sketches
By Scott Winfield Sublett
Note to the reader: When I decided to take on teaching this
class, I assumed there would exist a good textbook for it. I was
wrong, so I have had to write one myself, and this is it.
In its current form, this text is intended as a course reader for
“TA 13: The Great Comedies.” Its aim is to familiarize you
with the nature and techniques of comedy writing so you can
better analyze comedies and understand why they’re funny.
My ultimate goal is to continue to develop this text until it
becomes a viable “how to” book for those who intend to write
comedies for stage and screen. (It will be a companion volume
for my screenwriting text, Screenwriting for Neurotics,
published in 2014 by University of Iowa Press.)
This material is copyrighted and you may not share with it
others legally. Please help me protect the value and copyright
of my original material by not sharing with anyone outside the
class.
Thank you. Let’s start laughing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Are You Funny?/ Comedy vs. “A Comedy”/A Little About Me/Prepare to Be
Funny/Definitions of Comedy/Better Living Through Comedy/A Warning
Chapter One: Principles of Comedy
The Comic Moment: That’s Wrong!/Deviation From Norms and Standards:Criticism and
Forgiveness/Deviation#1:Cultural Norms/The Stereotype and Deviation From the
Norm/Airplane! Playing With Norms and Racial Stereotypes/Is Comedy Inherently
Unkind or Politically Incorrect?/Deviation #2:From Human Norms/Deviation#3: From
Norms of Physical Possibility/Physical Impossibility and the Acton Hero/A Digression
About Comic Tension and Comic Relief/Back to Action and the Comedy of Physical
Impossibility/Deviation#4: From Artistic Norms/The Forth Wall/Asides and Direct
Address of the Camera/Examples of Characters Acknowledging They’re in
Fictions/Genres That Depend on Deviation from Artistic Norms/DEVIATION #5:FROM
LINGUISTIC NORMS/Non-sequiturs, Mangles Word Choice and “Goldwynisms”/Non-
sequiturs and Nonsense/Misunderstanding/Mispronunciation/Puns and Wordplay/The
Voices of Performers/Impersonating a Voice and Mimicry/The Linguistic Deviation
Expresses Character/Changing Norms and Crossing Borders: A
Digression”/Topicality/WHY DOES THE COMIC CHARACTERS DEVIATE FROM
NORMS?/Henri Bergson and Automatic Behavior/INAPPROPRIATE Behavior:
Comedy, Context and the Fish Out of Water/Selecting a Setting for the Fish Out of
Water: Places of Solemnity, Propriety and Theatricality/Proper, Fancy, Rule-
bound/Environment/Human Types/
Chapter Two: Comic Characters and Their Behaviors
Identifying, Understanding and Creating Comic Characters/Characterization and
Comedy: Shharp and Defines/The Single-Mindedness of the Comic Character/ Surprise!
The Comic Character’s Mind is Elsewhere/The Moment the Audience Realizes, “So
That’s What He’s Thinking!”/Setting Up Com.
COMEDY FOR NEUROTICS A Practical Guide to Writing Funnier.docx
COMEDY FOR NEUROTICS:
A Practical Guide to Writing Funnier Screenplays
and Stage Plays and Sketches
By Scott Winfield Sublett
Note to the reader: When I decided to take on teaching this
class, I assumed there would exist a good textbook for it. I was
wrong, so I have had to write one myself, and this is it.
In its current form, this text is intended as a course reader for
“TA 13: The Great Comedies.” Its aim is to familiarize you
with the nature and techniques of comedy writing so you can
better analyze comedies and understand why they’re funny.
My ultimate goal is to continue to develop this text until it
becomes a viable “how to” book for those who intend to write
comedies for stage and screen. (It will be a companion volume
for my screenwriting text, Screenwriting for Neurotics,
published in 2014 by University of Iowa Press.)
This material is copyrighted and you may not share with it
others legally. Please help me protect the value and copyright
of my original material by not sharing with anyone outside the
class.
Thank you. Let’s start laughing.
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Introduction
Are You Funny?/ Comedy vs. “A Comedy”/A Little About Me/Prepare to Be
Funny/Definitions of Comedy/Better Living Through Comedy/A Warning
Chapter One: Principles of Comedy
The Comic Moment: That’s Wrong!/Deviation From Norms and Standards:Criticism and
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Norm/Airplane! Playing With Norms and Racial Stereotypes/Is Comedy Inherently
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About Comic Tension and Comic Relief/Back to Action and the Comedy of Physical
Impossibility/Deviation#4: From Artistic Norms/The Forth Wall/Asides and Direct
Address of the Camera/Examples of Characters Acknowledging They’re in
Fictions/Genres That Depend on Deviation from Artistic Norms/DEVIATION #5:FROM
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bound/Environment/Human Types/
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The Comic Character’s Mind is Elsewhere/The Moment the Audience Realizes, “So
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