Questions producers may ask about your comedy concept

You’ve developed your characters. You’ve written your pilot script. You’ve put together a whizz-bang Proof of Concept video and pitch document. What could go wrong? There are questions producers may ask about your comedy concept I’ve seen comedy concept pitches implode after one simple question… Before you pitch your comedy concept (it might be a…

Humour and Story

[Excerpt from ‘The Cheeky Monkey – Writing Narrative Comedy’ by Tim Ferguson] “Gags die. Humour doesn’t.”   —Jack Benny The driving force behind narrative comedy is character. Comedy deriving from character underpins many gag principles. American playwright Neil Simon boasted that he wrote his comedies without ever writing one joke. Without starting a debate about his…