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The comic toolbox : how to be funny even if you're not / by John Vorhaus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vorhaus, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic, The.
- Comedy--Technique.
- Comedy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 191 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, [1994]
- Summary:
- The Comic Toolbox is a straightforward, often humorous workbook approach to creative problem solving. Vorhaus offers writers and comics, the tools of the trade -- "clash of context, " "tension and release, "the law of comic opposites, " "the wildly inappropriate response" and more. Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain -- the essence of the comic situation -- and that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy. Kill your ferocious editor within, and rich, useful comic ideas will flow.
- Contents:
- Comedy is truth and pain
- The will to risk
- The comic premise
- Comic characters
- Some tools from the toolbox
- Types of comic stories
- The comic throughline
- More tools from the toolbox
- Practical jokes
- Comedy and jeopardy
- Still more tools from the toolbox
- Situation comedy
- Sketch comedy
- Toward polish and perfection
- Scrapmetal and doughnuts
- Homilies and exhortations.
- ISBN:
- 1879505215
- 9781879505216
- OCLC:
- 30915895
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