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101 | Comedy Legend Dan O'Shannon On What Makes Our Writing Funny

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What Sucoms Inspired You When You First Started?

Don't freak out if you're not inspired. Go back and work on the craft partit. You might find that, as you're trimming up your scene and making it look better on the page, that, oh, this thing that he says over here, maybe i'll have him say that later. Take out a coma, move in a comed just play with the things on the page that have no demandf of inspiration toward you. It doesn't need you to have a brilliant idea to come back and take a word out that you don't need. And like, there was, when i needed an end for an episode of moderan family, and i remembered one line from

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