Name: Judd Apatow: To Write a Comedy, Don't | MasterClass Moments | MasterClass
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T12:20:06.000Z
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People should look at comedies as dramas when they're writing.

To-infinitive

It really doesn't help to think of these stories as comedy

They should be stories that would work just as

If you have a great story and great characters,

it's easy to find a way to make it funny.

primarily, and they don't really have a reason to exist.

You could say that The 40-Year-Old Virgin

We approach it as a real idea about a guy who

And now he's so embarrassed and so scared that he can't do it.

and about someone who is stuck as a pubescent person.

And if you take it seriously, then, suddenly, his predicament

can become funny because he's in a corner.

I generally just think difficult circumstances lend themselves

to comedy and it allows it to be both dramatic and funny.

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Judd Apatow: To Write a Comedy, Don't | MasterClass Moments | MasterClass

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