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111 | Tone In Your Writing: The Definitive Episode (w/ Sheila Hanahan Taylor)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What's the Difference Between Slapstick and Situational Comedy?

Sally Kohn: I would say if there's slapsticks comedy, that is a tone that you fixed. She says horror comedies are incredibly hard to do because what's funny? Is it funny when the splatter hits them or is it funny? That's why there's so few that actually have have connected and made money. So yeah, slapstick is its own universe head bonks or their own universe.

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