He also runs a seminar in L.A. called The Sitcom Room, where you get to spend two days living the life of a sitcom writer. It’s frequently sold out. I’m not sure if he’s going to hold another or not. I think it’s a couple of thousand dollars, so it’s well out of my...
Around this time last year, I began to think about writing a sitcom pilot for a college style idea which I had. Not actually write it, just think about writing one. Eventually I wrote the pilot by November last year, roughly. I like to mull things over, think them through. Looking bac...
Mallory lives in a home under constant physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her domineering father (Rodney Dangerfield) and doormat of a mother (Edie McClurg); that flashback plays out as a deranged sitcom with laugh track called “I Love Mallory”, filmed on a soundstage with big ...
Larry David, the co-creator of the “Seinfeld” sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1998, was also the executive producer and head writer for its first seven seasons. When he says the pilot “wasn’t a very good show,” Seinfeld agrees: Seinfeld: Because we thought the overexplored flimsy th...
specifically by finding space at a writers’ table developing a TV “prestige” sitcom about the “mulatto” experience. The narrative twists, however clever and trenchant, aren’t what keep your head in the game; it’s the streams of zingers, aphorisms, and socio-cultural observations, whethe...
or make insults. What may work well in a stand up act may not work as well in a children’s sitcom or a comedy skit. Knowing what type of humor works where will help a comedy writer fine tune his writing. All humor starts as an idea. Do some brainstorming and bounce ideas off of...
Sitcom Pilot Script – Some Traps and How to Escape ByJason PeckinComedy Here are a few sitcom pilot scripts traps I’ve experienced myself, and some potential ways to escape. This is not an exhaustive list of traps by any means. And I am writing from the perspective of a first-time ...
Hy, when I sent my sitcom pilot to be critiqued I was thinking you'd find a few more jokes to squeeze out of it. Boy, were my expectations exceeded! Sure my script has more jokes, but your forcing me to think more about the characters and theme makes the script funnier on a holist...
Sitcom pilot (31pgs) Comedy/Murder Mystery Logline: When a teenage loner finds her best friend dead at the local waterpark she’s the only one who suspects foul play. But to uncover the truth, she’ll have to face her biggest fear: other teenagers. BRICK meets THE WAY, WAY BACK. Che...
Not withstanding this reaction I am pressing on with my lonely foray into character comedy and writing what I hope might some day be the pilot of a sitcom. I am helped in this by Micheal Jacob, my writing mentor who has, so far never backed away from me in a social situation (although...