In our book Now That’s Funny! The Art and Craft of Comedy Writing, 29 comedy writers take a generic premise we gave them and develop it into 24 unique stories. An unexpected bonus is some great pitch stories that emerged during these interviews. Both...

A Book for Two Seasons

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe that there are two kinds of people and those who don’t. As university professors, we identified two kinds of students: Those enrolled in television and screenwriting...

Head into any Starbucks in LA and you’ll see a bunch of people with laptops trying to fix broken second acts. Since neither of us barely can get our writing done in a book-lined study where the sound of a pin dropping is likely to ruin a morning’s wo...