Learn the Professional Techniques Guaranteed to Create Laughs
for a Full 2 Hours
The Wedding Crashers, screenplay by Steve Faber, Bob Fisher
“Rule #1: Never leave a fellow crasher behind.”
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Want to create your unique story brand?
“My writing’s had more practical benefit from The Anatomy of Story and genre classes than any other story coach.”
Comedy is the single most successful story form. But one reason comedy is so difficult is that it has at least eight different sub-structures, each with very different story beats. If you approach comedy as a professional, you can become one of the few writers to work steadily in this popular form.
The COMEDY AUDIO CLASS is among the most popular at Truby’s Writers Studio because it gives you all the techniques of this perennial favorite. We guarantee you won’t find a third of them anywhere else.
This is a monster course, covering comic characters, comedy structures, all the beats of the major comedy story forms, comedy dialogue and much, much more. If you are serious about your comedy writing, get this course.
Here are the main subjects we cover in the 19 modules:
1.How Comedy Works
2. 9 Best Character Types
3. Boor, Trickster & Traveling Angel
4. The 15 Comedy Story Beats
5. Setting Up the 4-Point Opposition
6. How to Create the Comic Nightmare
7. Scams, Disguises & Mistaken Identity
8. Ending the Comedy
9. Comedy Scenes & Dialogue
10. Myth Comedy Beats
11. Action Comedy Beats
12. Romantic Comedy Beats
13. Buddy Picture Beats
14. Traveling Angel Beats
15. Farce Beats
16. Black Comedy Beats
17. Satire Beats
18. 10 Keys to Comedy
• Structure steps for the 8 major comedy stories
• 3 essential comedy forms
• Great comic characters and how to create them
• The comic gap and how to create it
• How a 4-point opposition makes a story funnier
• Creating an opponent who is both funny and menacing
• 10 Keys to great comedy
• Visual gags and line gags
• Writing great comedic dialogue