Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perret's Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. From the basics of comedy writing as a craft... disciplining one's wit discovering what works visualization avoiding the obvious on through the nitty-gritty of the work... finding a topic constructing monologues, sketches, and scripts writing to your...