[Excerpt from ‘The Cheeky Monkey – Writing Narrative Comedy‘] The saying ‘Tragedy is when it happens to me; Comedy is when it happens to you’ is right, but it only tells half the story. The second half of the line should be ‘Comedy is when it happens to you because of something you’ve done’. Sure,…
Category: Characters
Creating Comedy Characters
Comic characters work best when they are built from a simple base. Simplicity is the chief imperative, whether you’re inventing a character from the ground up, or applying new attributes to an ancient archetype. True, comic characters may present complex combinations of warring attributes, and comic delivery can range from the subtle to the painfully…