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PREVIEW:
COMEDY
Every comedy differs
by how the character is reduced or dropped in the story. There are three
major ways this happens:
1. animal: showing or talking about people doing the basic bodily functions.
Any dirty joke is animal humor.
2. child: someone acting as a child. Or more generally, someone reacting
with more emotion than the situation would normally require.
3. machine: someone acting like a thing or a machine. Or more generally,
reacting with less emotion than the situation requires.
Why is this important if you are going to write a good comedy? Because
the way you construct the overall story, the scene, and the gag depends
on which of these three drops your characters are going to undergo.
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