SIT-COM WRITING 

Sitcoms are the most popular form on television and provide more work than any other kind of writing. The best comedy writing in the entertainment industry is done on sitcoms. But Sitcoms are NOT jokes. They are comic short stories, and they have unique, highly-structured forms. The trick is knowing the sitcom story structures that actually produce the laughs, writing comedy from character, and playing with the ongoing web of oppositions.

The SITCOM COURSE is one of Truby's Writers Studio's most popular, because it shows you all the elements of character, structure, scene and dialogue of this popular form. No other book or course has the depth or breadth of this 5-hour class. Students range from those trying to break in with a spec script to those established pros who want to learn how to create their own sitcom

If you can write funny, you owe it to yourself to write sitcoms. If you want to write Sitcoms professionally, this course is the best tool you can have.

FEATURES:

• Common elements of emmy-winning scripts
• Three kinds of sitcom structures
• 4-point comic oppositions
• The perfect template for breaking down any TV sitcom
• Drama within the sitcom
• Do's and don'ts of your spec script
• Setups and payoffs
• Breaking in
• Writing on staff
• Classic comedy predicaments
• Sitcom errors
• Rewriting for laughs

Audio, 5 hours
No. P211
Price $99

BONUS:
Buy the Sitcom Course, get the Sitcom Software at 1/2 price.

TESTIMONIALS:
"Next to a computer, John Truby's sitcom techniques are the most useful tools a sitcom writer can have."
Ellen Sandler, writer-producer Everybody Loves Raymond, Baby Talk, Kate and Allie, Taxi

"One of the smartest things I did to break in as a sitcom writer was take Truby's Sitcom Class."
Pam Wick, writer Married.. With Children, My Two Dads