Comedy Writing Self-Taught Workbook. Gene Perret

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СКАЧАТЬ Exercise 46: Not Done Yet

       Exercise 47: Killing Dead Time

       Part Three: Writing for Your Mentor

       Exercise 48: Pick Your Mentor

       Exercise 49: The Best of Your Mentor

       Exercise 50: Let Your Mentor Mentor

       Exercise 51: You’ve Been Hired

       Exercise 52: Waste Not, Want Not

       Exercise 53: Find the Right Formula

       Exercise 54: Hello, Good-bye

       Exercise 55: Tailor-Made

       Exercise 56: Dedicated Chunk

       Exercise 57: Where Did That Come From?

       Exercise 58: Strengthen the Weaknesses

       Exercise 59: Strengthen the Strengths

       Exercise 60: Let It Sit

       Exercise 61: Special Appearances

       Exercise 62: On the Couch

       Exercise 63: Talk Spot

       Exercise 64: Become Your Mentor

       Exercise 65: Make It Tighter

       Exercise 66: Make It Tighter Still

       Part Four: Sketch Writing

       Exercise 67: Where Did It Come From?

       Exercise 68: That’s Where It Came From

       Exercise 69: My Life Is Made Up of Sketches

       Exercise 70: At the Movies

       Exercise 71: And the Story Goes

       Exercise 72: Classic Jokes

       Exercise 73: Words of Wisdom

       Exercise 74: That Really Bugs Me

       Exercise 75: Develop One

       Exercise 76: Hog-Tied Guests

       Exercise 77: Book Your Guests

       Exercise 78: Bigger Than Life

       Exercise 79: Boob Tube

       Exercise 80: Commercial Writing

       Exercise 81: There’s More to It Than That

       Exercise 82: Oh That’s Good

       Exercise 83: The Road Runner Sketch

       Exercise 84: The Silent Sketch

       Exercise 85: Words, Words, Words

       Exercise 86: All Good Things Must Come to an End

       Exercise 87: Curtain and Applause

       Part Five: Sitcom Writing

       Exercise 88: Pop Quiz

       Exercise 89: Open-Book Test

       Exercise 90: Who Says What?

       Exercise 91: What Could Possibly Happen?

       Exercise 92: Same with Sitcoms

       Exercise 93: Get Your Story Straight

       Exercise 94: Get Your Story Changed

       Exercise 95: Get Your Story Straight—Again

       Exercise 96: Another Questionnaire

       Exercise 97: Add Some Funny

       Exercise 98: Keep That Story Moving

       Exercise 99: Put Another Bump in the Road

       Exercise 100: On the Set

       Exercise 101: Make It Shorter

       Exercise 102: Write the “Bible”

       Exercise 103: Write Your Own “Bible”

       Exercise 104: Turn the Tables on Your Characters

       Exercise 105: It Can’t Get Any Worse

       Exercise 106: What’d You Say?

       Exercise 107: Switch

       Exercise 108: A Good Old Story

       Exercise 109: A Good Joke

       Exercise 110: A Good Old Cliché

       Exercise 111: That Really Irks Me

       Exercise 112: Finished Project

       Exercise 113: “A Martian Wouldn’t Say That”

       Exercise 114: “A Different Martian Wouldn’t Say That, Either”

       Exercise 115: Just Do It

       Foreword

      There are no shortcuts to success. After I won America’s Got Talent in 2007, people kept describing me as an overnight success while conveniently forgetting to mention I had spent over twenty years on the road working on my ventriloquism, singing and comedy.

      But trust me, I wasn’t born throwing my voice. It’s an ability I developed, but it took a long time. Luckily I had a master to learn from and a book he had written—it was Paul Winchell’s Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit. When I was ten years old I checked it out of the library and started learning about ventriloquism. So thanks to Paul I became a ventriloquist. But that’s only half the story. As I worked on my act I noticed that having the skill to throw your voice is one thing; having something funny to say is another. Luckily I found another book. I know what you’re thinking—someone in show business actually read two books! But it’s true. It was by Gene Perret and it was called Comedy Writing Step By Step. I started doing the exercises, learning from the master, and added comedy to my act.

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