Break into the TV Comedy World
with a Class that Really Works
Modern Family, created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd
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The best comedy writing in the entertainment industry is done on television. But TV comedy shows are NOT about stringing together a lot of jokes. They are comic short stories, and they have a unique, highly structured form.
The trick is knowing the Comedy story structures that actually produce the laughs, writing comedy from character, and playing with the ongoing web of comic oppositions.
The TELEVISION COMEDY AUDIO CLASS is one of Truby’s Writers Studio’s most popular, because it shows you all the tools and techniques of character, structure, scene and dialogue you must know to write TV comedy professionally.
No other book or course has the depth or breadth of this class. Students range from those trying to break in with a spec script to those established pros who want to learn how to create their own television comedy.
Here are the main subjects we cover in the 16 modules:
1. How TV Comedies Work
2. How to Break Down a Show
3. The TV Comedy Structure Beats
4. The 8 Key Comedy Characters
5. Setting Up the Story Predicament
6. Creating the Comic Opposition
7. Scams and Disguises
8. Comic Nightmares
9. How the A + B Scene Weave Works
10. Funny Scenes and Funny Lines
11. Family Comedy Beats
12. How “Modern Family” Works
13. The Anti-Comedy & Singles Comedy Beats
14. Sophisticated Comedy Beats
15. Creating Your Own TV Comedy
16. Serious Comedy Beats
• Common elements of Emmy-winning scripts
• Three kinds of TV comedy structures
• 4-point comic oppositions
• The perfect template for breaking down any TV comedy
• Drama within the comedy
• Do’s and don’ts of your spec script
• Setups and payoffs
• Breaking in
• Writing on staff
• Classic comedy predicaments
• TV comedy errors
• Rewriting for laughs