What Are You Laughing At?: How to Write Humor for Screenplays, Stories, and More - Softcover

Schreiber, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621536009 ISBN 13: 9781621536000

Publisher: Allworth, 2017

Synopsis

**Winner of the 2022 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism**

“People have forgotten how to be funny,” says Chris Vogler in his foreword to What Are You Laughing at? Luckily, experienced and award-winning humor writer Brad Schreiber is here to remind us all how it’s done. If laughter is the best medicine, be prepared to feel fit as a fiddle after perusing these pages. Brad’s clever wit and well-timed punch lines are sure to leave you grasping your sides, while his wise advice will ensure that you’re able to follow in his comedic footsteps.

With more than seventy excerpts from such expert prose and screenwriters as Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., as well as unique writing exercises for all situations, this comprehensive tutorial will teach you how to write humor prose for any literary form, including screenwriting, story writing, theater, television, and audio/radio. Additionally, readers are given sage advice on different tactics for writing comedic fiction versus comedic nonfiction. Some of the topics discussed include:

Life experience versus imagination
How to use humor to develop theme/setting, character, and dialogue
Rhythm and sound of words
Vulgarity and bad taste
How to market your humor prose in the digital market
Thoroughly revised and updated, and with new information on writing short, humorous films, What Are You Laughing at? is your endless source to learning the art of comedy.

About this title

About the Author

Brad Schreiber has worked as a writer in books, TV, film, theatre, radio and once wrote a humorous phone line called Dial-An-Insult. He has has won awards from the Edward Albee Foundation, the National Press Foundation, International Book Awards and Independent Publisher Book Awards. He's taught humor writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and many other subjects across the US, Canada and Mexico. Brad has been VP for Storytech Literary Consulting, created by story structure expert Chris Vogler and among Brad's ten books, BECOMING JIMI HENDRIX is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library. He is also the author of the best-selling WEIRD WONDERS AND BIZARRE BLUNDERS. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Allworth
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621536009
• ISBN 13: 9781621536000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280