Comedy Toolbox

Comedy is cruelty
-it’s funny if it happens to others and not you
-someone is suffering
-mental adjastment - you have to be willing to heart imaginary
people

Create a bad situation for the character -“make a bad situaion

worse”
1. what makes a person happy in that moment?
2. what makes a person unhappy in that moment?

How do you make a character suffer?(Clash of context)

1. objects/persons that belong in the envoirement
(transform the envoirement)
Ex room: chairs, windows, bed, desk, people, couch, light
etc.
2. objects/persons that doesn’t belong in the envoirement
Ex: car, santa claus, plain, elephant, tank, dead
grandfather, ghost etc (the more unusual the better)
3. how can we bring the unusual objects in the envoierment?

Exercise: association word that relates with the

envoirement / or don’t relate

The question are for this: Who? and What?

Fail Big!!!!
-don’t edit, be aware that you edit and eliminate that little
by little

Inappropiet responses
-give an attitude to a character
The question are for this: What attitude can we give
to the character?
Ex: bitter, pregnanent

A character:
1. what he wants?
2. how can you take that from him or make it
harder?
3. throw forces of opposition

Exaggeration
1. exaggeration of number of things
2. exaggeration of attitude

Taboo
What s taboo (forbbiden) in an social context?
Defeat of expectaion

Funeral - black clothes, cross, chair, priest, widow, the dead ---
clash of intrest ---normal
- sadness,crying, grief, silence - appropiet response ---
normal
- laghing, telling jokes about the dead, talking loud,
reading the newspaper, reading porn ---abnormal,