Comedy Scripts Pdf
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Synopsis: Ron Burgundy is San Diego's top-rated newsman in the male-dominated broadcasting of the 1970s, but that's all about to change for Ron and his cronies when an ambitious woman is hired as a new anchor.
Synopsis: Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Synopsis: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Synopsis: The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
Synopsis: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, in which she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
Synopsis: In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Synopsis: When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Synopsis: The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father the ambitious celestial being Ego.
Synopsis: Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
Synopsis: After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Synopsis: A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
Synopsis: Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.
Synopsis: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Synopsis: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Synopsis: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Synopsis: Johnny is a successful bank executive who lives quietly in a San Francisco townhouse with his future wife, Lisa. One day, putting aside any scruple, she seduces Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.
Synopsis: Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be.
Synopsis: Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnark, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
Synopsis: Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire.
Synopsis: John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.
Synopsis: A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.
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I recently completed a project for a client who hired me and my business partner to write and produce a series of fourteen short comedy video segments. Each segment was intended to show a different part of the client's product, explain its value to the customer, and contrast it favorably with the competition. It had to be memorable, funny, and engaging. This was both fun and challenging! The client was working with many different subject matter experts on a tight timeline and with legal review foremost in their minds.
I'm pleased to say that we completed the project on the deadline provided, and that the end result was great! My partner and I came up with an overall creative treatment, pitched it to the client sponsor, and won approval in concept. We used the idea of twin brothers--one who used the client's product and one who didn't--and shot the video with one actor and split-screen editing. This let me write the scripts for the two characters, Wes and Les, to play off each other using a different comedy theme in each of the fourteen videos. The comedy themes for the twins ranged from a Star Trek parody, to not having enough time for a golf game, to "I really want to be a lumberjack!"
My approach to this creative design and writing challenge worked well enough, but there were some things that I learned for the next time something like this comes along. (Contact me if you know someone with a similar need!) Here are some lessons learned:
In the end, yes, comedy is hard. It relies on good content, knowing the audience and delivering something that connects with their senses of humor, and having the acting talent to deliver it all with the right timing. But hard is worth doing, and comedy that makes its point is worth doing well. What have you found that resonated better when delivered with comedy than with straight narrative or drama?
There are hardly any production companies who accept "unsolicited" scripts. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean you can't get your script read by them. A little detective work on Google will uncover people who work in their script development departments. Once you get names, drop them an email with a brief blurb about your script. You never know. They might ask to read it.
Sadly there is no fast track.
Fact is most commisioning editors are very staid and wont take chances.
Also to submit anything it HAS to come from someone PACT registered and dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
I'm in the same situation as crayon. I have a sitcom finished and can only find one production company that takes unsolicited scripts. (Not including writers room) The other four or five I used to send to have stopped taking them. if anyone who's read my work in the critique section or anyone else for that matter who knows of any of the top of their heads please post. Same goes for competitions.
In one sense, this is where Greg Wroneki is right (and probably what he was thinking of). Commissioners of programming are always out of bounds. They only talk to bona fide producers (who do have to registered). With the Beeb its WritersRoom(slush pile) , a production company/producer or nothing.
Think back to your childhood. Remember the kid who was the class clown? He (it was pretty much always a he. Funny girls were considered to be weird. And guys, how intimidated are you by a witty, funny woman?) irritated the teacher and generated giggles from classmates not so much by making witty remarks, but mainly by doing goofy stuff, making faces and slap-sticky things.
I went to middle school with the same group of kids. There were the smart kids (not me), the athletes (not me), the cool kids (definitely not me), the outcasts (fortunately not me: that was to come during high school), the gen-pop (kids who were just there, usually well-behaved and religious) and the two kids competing to be class clown (one of which was me).
Competing is a generous word. There was no competition. The other kid, Joey, was hands down, the funniest kid in class. I was a distant second. Really distant. Looking back, kids laughed at me more than because of something funny I did or said.
Pinpointing the type of comedies you write is important, especially if the person who asked what kind of screenplays you write is an agent, manager, producer, development executive or somebody in the business who might help you.
Before Alan Ball wrote Six Feet Under and True Blood, he wrote for Grace Under Fire and Cybil. He made the transition, which also included a little detour into screenwriting called American Beauty. Same with Terence Winter. Before he wrote for The Sopranos and created Boardwalk Empire he wrote for Flipper and Sister, Sister.