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We love a good half hour comedy, but we have to admit that writing them is really hard. You have to establish the characters, set up the series, and show the reader what your central story engine is going to be for the show. And then you have to be funny doing it!
Punching up a script is the process writers use to make a comedy even funnier and snappier than it already is. Just about every comedy script needs a punch up at some point in the development process, but how does this process actually work? What parts of a script get punched up and how can you spot them and do the punch up yourself?
Join TV comedy writer Carley Whitt for this two week clinic to punch up your half hour comedy pilot, and learn how to punch up future scripts!
This Two Week Clinic Will Cover:
- Identifying areas of a script that could use a punch up
- Writing and pitching jokes
- Implementing changes
- Feedback on your script
**Prior to Class #1, Carley will read each writer's script in full and mark up the sections that could use a punch up. Between Class #1 & #2, writers are expected to read their classmates' scripts and prepare joke pitches for the highlighted sections.
Carley Whitt is a comedy writer, most recently a Staff Writer on NEVER HAVE I EVER. Before that, Carley served as Showrunner’s Assistant to Lang Fisher (NEVER HAVE I EVER) and the Writers’ PA on Hulu’s FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL. Carley read submissions for the Warner Brothers’ TV Writers’ Workshop where she learned how participants are selected. She is a graduate of USC with a BFA in Writing for TV and Film. Carley has an understanding of what comedy Showrunners look for in writers’ samples and how they decide who to bring into the room. She loves working with fellow writers to help them tell their stories in the best possible way.
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