15 Comedy Characters Writers Should Know - Steve Kaplan
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In this video, author/instructor Steve Kaplan shares how in comedy there are several common character archetypes, including the wise guy, the ditzy character, the mother, the stupid character, the nerd, the flirty girl, and the trickster. These archetypes are not stereotypes, but rather representations of a certain point of view or way of being and thinking. Within the archetype, the characters still have other attributes and they should not be written exclusively based on their archetype. These archetypes have been around since early Greek times.
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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I would like to hear more conversations of the spoof/parody genre.
Well put sounds very legit advice
Im loving that - I think I understand the Carry on Films more as Character driven storys.
Can you assign Winnie-the-Pooh characters to The Simpsons?
No, because not all comedy set ups equate to Winnie the Pooh. The Simpsons seems to follow "The 8 characters of sit-coms" Homer is the lovable loser/dumb one. Bart is the bastard. Marge is the logical smart one. And Lisa is the materialistic one I guess, but not materialistic for material things like money and objects, materialistic in that she is driven by things she wants like justice, animal rights and so on.
what is mirror character and when will book on sitcoms coming. Waiting for it🙂
Can you assign Winnie-the-Pooh characters to The Office?
Wonderful! Anybody count the 15?
Trickster, Animal, Mentor, Dummy, Ditzy, Wiseass, Voice of resaon, the flirty one, what else? Mother, Father...
The bigger question is how many more than 15 can you count?
Who is the funny character.
The best comedy actors are Robin Williams, Jim Carrey Steve Carell and Adam Sandler.