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#92 - The Princess Bride (1987)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Importance of Irony in Comedy

Comedy can be taught and I think comedy. Yeah yeah it's writing a special yeah yeah so anyway. So okay number one is irony. And the article is alcoholic father disappointed in pothead son. That's the onion example. The one that I thought does track with this is when grandpa's doing the voiceover of after Fesic is drunk. He says, Fesic took great care and reviving an ego meanwhile what we're seeing is him jumping and then the thing barrels violently. This is kind of what takes it to the next level but with that. They're funny because they write like funny lines of dialogue or clever things. But I think really and part of

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