TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vorhaus,John
TI  - The comic toolbox: how to be funny even if you're not 
SN  - 9781879505216
U1  - 808.7 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Silman-James Press
KW  - Comic, The
KW  - Comedy
KW  - Writing skills
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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