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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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You're Putting the Pill in the Shep When Youre Writing

Comedy is a way to get down into what makes us feel vulnerable and human. I'm using comedy as a way to, like, a jest emotions so that i can get you to think about a certain topic because of the way in which i said it. That's one of the things i really love about social and political satire. Some people just want to be comedia, and some people just wants to give me your shep. But i mean, like, i'm a black woman, so i'm always doing double duty. It doesn't at like the most positive panetation, b it's manipulation.

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