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69 | Discovering (And Honing) Your Comedic Voice w/ Shantira Jackson & Dewayne Perkins

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Comedy and Drama

Most of the comedy that i write in particular, stems from drama. In my head, theyre's like a road, and you're and you have to set up which could be dramatic beats. If you continue on that dramatic path, that's a dramatic scene. And then, coming from the lives that i've led as a person, most of the drama in my life has been cut by comedy for existence purposes. So i'm using comedy as a filter to filter drama because existing is inherently dramatic es costly conflict.

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