Comedy Writing Articles
Joe’s articles about writing tips, late-night TV, and the craft of creating jokes.
Joe’s articles about writing tips, late-night TV, and the craft of creating jokes.
As I write this, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is dominating its competition. Since its premiere on February 17, 2014, Tonight has earned a…
Jerry Seinfeld appears in this frustrating New York Times video teasingly entitled “How to Write a Joke.” In the video he calls comedy writing “a…
This week, on June 18, Access Hollywood perpetuated a longstanding misconception about The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A voiceover referred to “the game changer,…
As a host of the Tonight show, Jay Leno was typically regarded by the media as dull, not edgy. For example, a February 2014 article by…
Ideas get stolen in show business all the time but less often than you might think. I teach a class in comedy writing for late-night…
Short-form comedy, the kind on comedy/talk shows, often turns up in consumer products. That’s why the same writing techniques used on late-night shows can also…