Recently, I’ve looked at some sketches that I’ve written over the past year. One called “Jurassic America” caught my eye as one I’d probably never be able to produce on stage or as a video. It’s one of the wackiest things I’ve ever written and yet I had no way of sharing how wacky I… Continue reading Jurassic America
Category: Writing
Chuck Jones’ Consistent Characters
Yesterday, someone posted on Reddit the rules Chuck Jones had when creating Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoons. The list is amazing and here it is…
Writing Campus Cancún
I recently wrote and performed in a sketch for Dictator’s Time Machine called, Campus Cancún. The idea came up during a brainstorming session about the springtime about how people treat the first warm day of the year like it’s the middle of the summer.
Writing in Stephen Colbert’s Voice
Recently I took a writing workshop with Eric Drysdale of The Colbert Report at ImprovBoston. During the class, we learned how the writers for The Colbert Report put their material together. The workshop started off with the group talking about things that were going on in the news and we eventually hit on a topic that Eric felt would be good to tackle for The Colbert Report’s “Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger.”
A kidnapping joke
When I write for my stand-up act, jokes or bits or whatever, it usually starts with a weird idea popping into my head or starts with me seeing or doing something I’d like to poke fun at. I don’t often sit down to write jokes. I’ll sit down to finish ideas and work on them… Continue reading A kidnapping joke
A Piece of the Process
My blog posts are usually, reasonably, planned out. The least planning I do is whenever I just post a photo and make fun of it for a few sentences, but even then I have to go find a photo that is worth talking about. Longer posts where I just write and write, tend to fester… Continue reading A Piece of the Process
Burying the Lead
This might be one of the least funny blog posts I’ve written (or will write) but I was tweeting about this the other day and I had to let this out. Print is dying. Not a novel idea, everyone knows at this point that newspapers and magazines are struggling. Borders is even closing all their… Continue reading Burying the Lead