A Life in Comedy 1 – Brainstorming
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): A Life in Comedy
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When it comes to writing process or brainstorming for comedy, what is it for you?
Rick Rosner: Well, most of my experience is writing topically. So the first thing to do is to sit down and see what’s happened over night, and what’s going on in the world. Since I am unemployed, and since I am deludedly trying to build a media brand via Twitter, I usually get my news from Twitter. I see what everyone is going crazy about. The day before yesterday, it was covfefe, which was Trump’s spasm of misspelling in a tweet.
The last close to a year has been mostly Trump. I am sick of it. Everybody else is sick of it, of having to make Trump jokes. Of course, everybody else is sick of why we have to make Trump jokes, which is that he is running the country. So anyway, first to Twitter to see what everybody is going crazy about, and to see hat jokes have already been hit, and to see if there are some other angles to come up with.
Some people when writing jokes will not let themselves read Twitter because it will close out too many joke angles. Once you see somebody else do it, you don’t want to do it. Once I see everybody go crazy on Twitter, I will try to look up some of the articles. I will try to get more information about the topics to see if there are any jokes to be had using extra information. I don’t know. Maybe, a third of the time you find some extra facts, which give you the opportunity to present the joked about situation that is even more absurd.
That’s for topical. There are also evergreen jokes, which, for me, is usually pulling stuff out of my everyday experience or life experience. It can include dumb stuff I’ve done in my life. Extra points if you can tie it into dumb stuff going on right now.
Jacobsen: Some closing statements.
Rosner: To sum up: check the goofy news, search for additional information, and consider your own life from personal angles. That’s a good three starting steps.
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com
In-Sight Publishing
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