Hidden Tools For Writing A Comedy Screenplay - Steve Kaplan [FULL INTERVIEW]

0:00 - What Is Comedy? What Writers Need To Know
13:57 - Difference Between Being Funny And Writing Funny
24:21 - Comedy Is Not Meant To Be Read
34:39 - What Makes Someone Laugh?
50:16 - How To Write A Great Comic Premise
1:01:53 - Writers Need To Lie In Order To Tell The Truth
1:16:37 - 3 Mistakes Writers Make In Act 1 That Ruin A Story
1:31:41 - 7 Stages Of The Comic Hero's Journey
1:48:09 - How To Write A Comic Protagonist
1:54: 45 - 15 Comedy Characters Writers Should Know
2:06:10 - How To Write A Great Buddy Comedy
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Steve Kaplan is the author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy and The Comic Hero's Journey, best-sellers in their field. He's working on a third book about writing comedy for television.
In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other universities, Steve created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. In addition to development projects for HBO, he has taught workshops online and around the globe and at companies such as DreamWorks, Disney Animation, Aardman Animation, and NBC's Writers on the Verge. Steve has worked as a script consultant and script editor for productions companies, studios, directors and individual writers.
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[@filmcourage]

What did you learn?

[@VSIMO2026]

comedy is art, how to tell the truth.

[@noelwood4169]

Cows don't question their food source. They just masticate on whatever's in front of them. The comedian is the one cow in the herd who raises his head and observes, "Hey, we're eating grass here!"

[@noelwood4169]

Drama helps us dream about what we could be., but comedy helps us live with who we are.

[@lselson]

@@noelwood4169No, it's the one cow named Jimmy Dore who points out they're eating corn and should be eating crass.

[@dale9933]

Perfect timing for this topic! Many thanks...I'll be listening to this one multiple times I'm sure. Love your channel!

[@EllerthePeridot]

I’m not a writer but he is spot on about that episode of “Raymond.” It was hilarious and with the length and not really anticipating what he would say, that line was 100% Ray. I think it also represents what the average person’s reaction might be as well😂

[@Dazgul]

I liked the key jangling. Reminds me of the technique in many recent films and shows.

[@_Otii]

One of the best. I took a lot of points home.

[@Wordsley]

These Rock!

[@shawshank178]

13:06 I have question for you Sir. So in the movie Step Brothers, when Will Ferrell rubs his unmentionables on his brother’s drum set, is that funny or comedy?

[@stevekaplan1170]

Neither? Both? It's your call.

[@christheother9088]

"art of telling the truth". Oh, how nostalgic.

[@davidmusset3435]

bring good comic back please :) i think society needs a good laugh

[@Sketching4Sanity]

One Love

[@martaferguson-dun645]

Funny. I also hated This Is Us. I mean...