Pre-Owned Bring the Funny: The Essential Companion for the Comedy Screenwriter (Hardcover)

A sharp funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent - as in this century - movies you ve actually seen as examples. Greg DePaul (Screenwriter Bride Wars Saving Silverman) has sold scripts to Miramax Fox Disney New Line Sony MGM and Village Roadshow. He s worked with comedy stars like Jack Black Kate Hudson Jason Biggs and Amanda Peet. Now Greg takes everything he knows about writing comedy and breaking into the biz tosses it into a blender and serves up this tasty fat-free smoothie of a book that s easy to read brutally honest and straight from the heart ... of Hollywood. Bring the Funny is chock full o tricks strategies and insider terms used by successful comedy screenwriters including: Comic Justice Wrylies Genre-Bending Shadow Characters The BDR s The Two-Hander The Conceit Comedic Escalation Gapping A.I.C. Fish Outta Water The Idea Factory Really Important Comedy Screenwriting Rules Number 99 and 100 If you re looking to write funnier and better screenplays you want this book. But if you re ready to pack up your car drive out to L.A. and dive into a career as a comedy screenwriter you need this book. Now. Buy it jam it into your pocket and hit the gas. Greg s got your back.