Creative Writing Resources: Comedy & Humor

To access the Video(s), follow the LinkedIn Learning link on the Full Sail Library's About page on Full Sail One.

• 5 Rules of Comedy Writing According to THE OFFICE Showrunner: Screencraft.org post.
• 6 Tips for Successful Comedy Writing: Writer's Digest post.
• Finding the Funny — A Beginner’s Guide to Comedy Writing: The Writing Cooperative post.
• How to Become a Comedy Writer: A Backstage post.
• Jerry Seinfeld's 5-Step Comedy Writing Process: Writer's Digest post.
• Vital comedy writing exercises to get you started: A Gold post, "The go-to platform for teen girls/young women/non-binary folks."

The eBooks are available through the links to EBSCOhost and O'Reilly Learning.

What better way to learn about Comedy & Humor than study great comedy films. The American Film Institute has listed the following as the best of the best comedy movies. Check out the full list here. Below you will find the top ten which are available through your Full Sail Library. (If the film is on SWANK, it can be streamed. SWANK can be accessed through the Library Online Research Database.) The films on SWANK has an * beside the title.

• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Tootise (1982)
• *Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• *Duck Soup (1933)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• M.A.S.H. (1970)
• *It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Airplane (1980)