Me Write Funny
…you get to kill people off, but crack a bunch of jokes along the way, rather in the way that Die Hard is a much better Hamlet than Hamlet was.
Month: May 2010
High Concept in Film
To describe all that in a single sentence is the Zen riddle of a lifetime.
Steve Kaplan, Comedian Extraordinaire
During Kaplan’s Comedy Intensive, Steve breaks down scenes from movies–those that work and those that don’t– and together with the class he discusses ways in which the tools might have helped the funny bits work in the situation. What he generally believes to be wrong in most romantic comedies is that they portray beautiful people doing foolish things which have little hope of helping their situation.
Hello world!
…what to do about it if it ain’t.
You Just Don’t Know Some People
…and I don’t have to worry about how they’ll pay for college. If they poop their pants, all the better.