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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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The Art of Writing

Comedy isn't just laughs, of course, but i would think it's much more immediate. One eye should always be on yourself experiencing this thing for the first time. And connect all that stuff you were feeling with the thing. Your job is to synthesize feelings and then make them come alive in some one else. I'm a big believer in learning all those rules. We've always skipped the partr we laugh at we've already laughed a million things. So al that fantastic. You know, like i woy say thatwhen you're writing, you're three entities simultaneously. Simultaneously, you're each character that you write. They do not know they 're in

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