The comic toolbox : how to be funny even if you're not / by John Vorhaus.

By:

Vorhaus, John

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TextPublication details: Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, c1994.Description: xvi, 191 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781879505216

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DDC classification:

808.7

Contents:

Ch. 1. Comedy is truth and pain -- Ch. 2. The will to risk -- Ch. 3. The comic premise -- Ch. 4. Comic character -- Ch. 5. Some tools from the toolbox -- Ch. 6. Types of comic stories -- Ch. 7. The comic throughline -- Ch. 8. More tools from the toolbox -- Ch. 9. Practical jokes -- Ch. 10. Comedy and jeopardy -- Ch. 11. Still more tools from the toolbox -- Ch. 12. Situation comedy -- Ch. 13. Sketch comedy -- Ch. 14. Toward polish and perfection -- Ch. 15. Scrapmetal and doughnuts -- Ch. 16. Homilies and exhortations.

Summary: It is a straightforward workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem solving. Offers tools of the trade to writers, comics and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are clash of the context, tension and release, the law of comic opposites, the wildly inappropriate response and the myth of the last great idea.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	808.7 VOR com (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10086

Ch. 1. Comedy is truth and pain --
Ch. 2. The will to risk --
Ch. 3. The comic premise --
Ch. 4. Comic character --
Ch. 5. Some tools from the toolbox --
Ch. 6. Types of comic stories --
Ch. 7. The comic throughline --
Ch. 8. More tools from the toolbox --
Ch. 9. Practical jokes --
Ch. 10. Comedy and jeopardy --
Ch. 11. Still more tools from the toolbox --
Ch. 12. Situation comedy --
Ch. 13. Sketch comedy --
Ch. 14. Toward polish and perfection --
Ch. 15. Scrapmetal and doughnuts --
Ch. 16. Homilies and exhortations.

It is a straightforward workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem solving. Offers tools of the trade to writers, comics and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are clash of the context, tension and release, the law of comic opposites, the wildly inappropriate response and the myth of the last great idea.

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