The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even If You're Not (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Comic Toolbox A workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem-solving. It offers tools of the trade such as Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny.
Full description- Publisher: Silman-James Press,U.S.
- Published: 01 September 1994
- Format: Paperback 191 pages
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- Categories: Dance & Other Performing Arts | Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Semantics | Humor | Parodies & Spoofs
- ISBN 13: 9781879505216 ISBN 10: 1879505215
- Sales rank: 25,325
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Full description for The Comic Toolbox
This is a straightforward, often humorous workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem-solving. In it, veteran Hollywood comedy writer John Vorhaus offers his tools of the trade to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea. Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain (the essence of the comic situation), that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy (kill the ferocious editor within and rich, useful comic ideas will flow), and much more.
