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There are writing exercises to help bring out the humorist in you, and add pizzazz to your creative endeavors. You’ll learn to write for television, film, and stage, as well as the 11 modes of comedic dialogue, 13 bad things screenwriters commonly do, and the “Cream of Wheat Theory” of exposition.

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Comedy Writing Secrets - 2nd Edition
Mel Helitzer

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Format: Softcover, 342 pages
ISBN: 1582973571
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date: October 2005

Description
Comedy writer and popular university professor on "Humor Writing for Fun and Profit," Helitzer is a former Madison Avenue advertising agency president who has helped launch the careers of hundreds of students.

In this easy-to-read book are more than one thousand speech excerpts, one-liners and comedy bits to help unleash your inner comic writing abilities.

Know the difference between a reverse and a triple? Can you mine the comic possibilities of puns and dialectic remarks? Want to learn the difference between effective exaggeration and understated truth?

You will learn all this and the Essential Threes Formula in this fine how-to for aspiring comedians and those who want to write comic films or television episodic shows that are lively and vibrant. Professional advice and realistic exercises. Good sources and bibliography, too.


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