A terrific primer on comedy writing. The Author Gene Perret is Bob Hope's head comedy writer. Gene Perret's Patented Comedy Exercises. Appendix 264 The questions beginning comedy writers ask most frequently-and the answers. Someone had to think that these things were possible and then work to make them a reality.
Ideas keep the world progressing.
When someone has a funny idea and can put it on paper, that someone is a comedy writer. It's astounding to think that the wildly warped philosophy and insightful humor of James Thurber and the charmingly funny characterizations of Neil Simon were once blank sheets of paper. Each morning in Hollywood a battalion of brilliant writers enter their offices, gulp down their coffee, and insert glaringly white sheets of paper into their IBM Selectrics. Then wheels start turning in their heads. Their fingers begin tippy-tapping at varying rates of speed, and humor magically appears on the page.