How I write the comedy
Posted on 7:39 PM by Rob
Been crafting a new script as of late. Well, not so much new as resurrected; so close to Easter and all. Finished the rough draft a few winters back over the course of maybe 4 weeks and left it to rot along with about 10 others in a box. 3 apartments later and with the aid of sometimes writer, full-time comic inspiration, Bill Schlavis, I was able to punch out the next version. Up around 70 pages now and should be done in 3-4 weeks if the pace continues.
Our work goes something like this: Bill says something mildly inappropriate and ambiguously gay. I counter it with something even more doubly entendre filled and then he snaps me in the sac with a back hand. Then one of us knocks down the pins set up by above mentioned process and we are almost home. One of us grabs a piece of paper and writes down whatever comic gold was spun and I dangle the comic genius words over the story and see where it fits. And no shit, this actually is how I do it. Of course there are ton of very dark, intense, brooding moments that are much to close to my artistically sensitive heart to unpack here with words, so don't think it's so easy.
