Why Writing High-Concept Comedy is All About Truth, Love and Understanding - Script Magazine
Why Writing High-Concept Comedy is All About Truth, Love and Understanding - Script Magazine Why Writing High-Concept Comedy is All About Truth, Love and Understanding By: Jon James Miller | June 2, 2015 Jon James Miller is a screenwriter, novelist and frequent online presenter. His first novel, a historical fiction based on an original screenplay, will be published Spring 2015. For more information, go to: www.jonjamesmiller.com Follow Jon on Twitter @jonjimmiller . Click to tweet this article to your friends and followers! Recently, comedian Jerry Seinfeld was asked what he thought the most important ingredient to comedy was, and he responded with one word: structure. And after writing several comedy scripts of my own I couldn’t agree more. This seems especially true of the high-concept comedy. That rare breed of screenplay that lives or dies by a writer’s ability to milk a comedic ...