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Now that's funny!, the art and craft of writing comedy, Peter Desberg, Jeffrey Davis

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Now that's funny!, the art and craft of writing comedy, Peter Desberg, Jeffrey Davis

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Now that's funny!

Oclc number

962438433

Responsibility statement

Peter Desberg, Jeffrey Davis

Sub title

the art and craft of writing comedy

Summary

Authors Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis present 24 of Hollywood's top comedy writers with the same generic comedy premise and examine how each writer approaches the creative writing process

Table Of Contents

Walter Bennett: The Steve Harvey Show, The Cosby Show -- Yvette Bowser: Living single, A different world -- David Breckman: Monk, Saturday Night Live -- Peter Casey: Fraiser, Cheers -- Ed Decter: There's something about Mary, The Santa Clause 2 -- Michael Elias: The jerk, The Frisco kid -- Heather Hach: Freaky Friday, Freaky Monday -- Mitch Klebanoff: Beverly Hills ninja, The disorderlies -- Dennis Klein: The Larry Sanders Show, Buffalo Bill -- Bob Myer: Mike & Mollly, Roseanne -- Hank Nelken: Saving Silverman, Are we done yet? -- Tracy Newman and Jonatha Stark: According to Jim, Ellen -- Dan O'Shannon: Modern family, Back to you -- Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio: Despicable me, Bubble boy -- Charlie Peters: Three men and a little lady, Blame it on Rio -- Heide Perlman: Cheers, The Tracey Ullman Show -- Phil Rosenthal: Everybody loves Raymond, Coach -- Lew Schneider: The Goldbergs, The new adventures of old Christine -- Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz: Gilligan's Island, The Brady bunch -- Paul Chitlik and Marc Sheffler: Who's the boss?, Charles in charge -- Elliot Shoenman: Home improvement, Maude -- Marley Sims: Home improvement, Sabrina the teenage witch -- Cheri and Bill Steinkellner: The Jeffersons, Cheers -- Leonard Stern: The honeymooners, Get smart

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