How do you write comedy? Is there a secret to it?

>>61705843
The secret is to be funny.

Easier to write drama than comedy. Start there, sprinkle in some comedy. Writing a full comedy is so fucking hard. Bad comedy is a bore. Bad drama can at least be funny.

>>61705843

1. think of things in your head
2. say them aloud to people
3. are these people laughing?
4. if yes, write it down

If you watch the IT Crowd season 4 (or 3 - I forget) with commentary, instead of talking you through each scene, writer Graham Linehan spends that whole season describing his writing process. It's like a free sitcom writing course taught by Linehan.

>>61705843
Funny enough I've been watching the seinfeld extras on youtube, it's pretty cool. You get some real insights as to how it was done. Apparently Lary David had a notebook with him at all times and would write down funny shit.

I've read and written a lot of shitty comedies. At most, a bad drama scene is boring and melodramatic. But when comedy doesn't hit, it sinks in your gut.

No real secret, but you have to analyze why things are funny, and PRACTICE it.

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Just suffer a lot.

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>>61705843

>>61706451
Thanks but IT Crowd is fucking trash.

Characters a peices of shit that never learn
>Always sunny
>seinfeld
>arrested development

>>61706528
Yeah it seems nearly every storyline in Seinfeld was inspired by some real shit that happened to the writer or to Larry.

Sprinkle "plants" throughout the earlier scenes and then make them pay off later.

>>61709095
Setup and payoff, good strategy

Comedy is based on fear. Fear of death. Fear of not fitting in. Fear of not being liked.

>>61705843
>It´s the nigger guy!