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Summary: If you're ready to write, this book will help you focus
Review: Boy, did I love this book... Mr. Wolff engagingly shares his experience as a veteran of the sit-com world with his audience of hopefuls, and makes it not only understandable but enjoyable. I was especially motivated by his step-by-step exercises designed to free the muse. And even though he was very direct about the chances of an unknown actually selling a show, he made me feel I can -- and will-- succeed. If he's this good on paper, I can only imagine how inspiring he would be in a classroom!
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Summary: Not a bad book, but . . .
Review: if you are serious about learning how to write sitcoms, the Evan Smith book "Writing Television Sitcoms" is much better. Smith's book gives better more detailed advice, plus it is more current.
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Summary: Not a bad book, but . . .
Review: if you are serious about learning how to write sitcoms, the Evan Smith book "Writing Television Sitcoms" is much better. Smith's book gives better more detailed advice, plus it is more current.
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Summary: TAKE MY WIFE, PLEASE
Review: If you think that is funny.....then you'll love this book.
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Summary: The Key to Writing Good Sitcoms
Review: In some ways, it's too bad this genre is called "situation" comedy, because that misleads a lot of people into thinking it's the situation (or setting) that is the key to a good sitcom. Actually, the most important element is strong characters--Sam and the "Cheers" crowd, for example, would have been equally funny in a different work setting. In the book, I give strategies for developing strong characters and finding storylines for them where there is something at stake. If you can do this, the humour will follow naturally.
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Summary: Recommended. A focused and concise book on sitcom writing.
Review: This book gathers the basic information on sitcom writing an a refreshingly straightforward manner. Because of the focus on successful network shows, the examples are necessarily lame. This book focuses on the structural requirements of teleplays as well as applicable business constraints. This will not teach one how to be funny. No book can. But, as the book states: jokes are easy. Story is hard. This book will help you craft a better sitcom story in a professional manner.
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Summary: This tired and insipid book.................................
Review: This book is sorporific. It's humour-free and is as dessicated as the gobi dessert. Wolff and Ferrante are to comedy writing what Ronald Reagan is to rememberance. This tired and insipid book is the broker of an unalloyed satanism. It purports to transform sketchy scrips into something monolithically funny. But their techniques are utterly without value and character. My mother, bless her, has more depth and writing ability than these two charlatans, and she has never picked up a pen or read a book.
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