Rich emotions are like humor fertilizer: they provide a fertile (if sometimes disgusting) breeding ground for beautiful flowers of laughter to blossom. Whenever writing a joke or funny story, remember that emotional conflict is good for comedy.
In fact, every joke is basically a short story — even one-liners — and our strongest, most visceral [...]
The most significant fact of the 20th century will be that the North Americans speak English.
— Otto Von Bismarck, 1898
I’m feeling pretty warm and fuzzy about the English language these days.
I recently watched a fantastic BBC program — I think those fruits would call it a programme — called The Adventure of English: The [...]
Amanda the Aspiring TV Writer broke my heart yesterday. Yeah, she’s a babe, but I don’t mean it like that — we’ve never actually met. What she did was generously take the time to offer me some advice that I really didn’t want to hear.
I asked Amanda what, given her Hollywood experience, she thought the [...]
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