Andrew Moraitis interviews comic and writer Tim Ferguson, who talks about how the principles of comedy including misdirection, irony and comic situations can relate to Australian comedy. “Don’t preach to me about romance, Annie! I had a three-way in a hot-air balloon,” arrogant former lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) tells his college study group in…
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How To Create 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…