![]() All of these ideas and more made it a book that I didn’t want to put down. In his new book, The Hidden Tools of Comedy, Steve gives you an inside look at how comedy works from the world view of the character the truth that comedy presents and the idea that the more the character knows, the less comic it is. Which is useful when you’re talking about comedy.” - David Crane, creator and executive producer: Friends, Episodes “Steve Kaplan is a master when it comes to comedy. Steve takes this ephemeral topic and reduces it to tangible terms that are both practical and illuminating. I started reading the book expecting to be merely amused, but what I found was a rigorous deconstruction of what makes comedy. So it was interesting to look at it from such a thoughtful perspective. I’m usually just fixated on the fact that it’s not funny enough. You may even turn into one yourself.” - Ellen Sandler, co-executive producer: Everybody Loves Raymond author: The TV Writer’s Workbook “I rarely think about why something I’m working on is funny. Don’t know what that is? Read this book, and you will. ![]() “Fresh insights with a ‘why didn’t I think of that’ on every page. ![]()
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