This is how to make the perfect comedy movie! The first thing is if you're going to make a comedy, it should be more about the story than the jokes. The jokes will naturally occur with a good story rather than a movie with a lot of quirky jokes with the whole purpose to try to make the audience die of laughter. There has to be a balance between a good enjoyable story and its jokes. If there's too much of one side, the movie will not be as funny!
Another factor to take into consideration is that you need to know how to write a funny story. Just because you are funny in person does not mean you are funny in writing. You need to think of a story that is funny and understandable for the audience, which ties to our next factor: a genre. To make a great comedy, you will need to find a specific genre to film about. From romantic to cringe high school comedies, you will need to find a genre in which you can write a lot of funny stories and jokes within your story.
Finally, the last step to success is writing the script with someone else. Everyone has a different sense of humor. Some find dark jokes hilarious; some find falls to be funny. So when two or more people are writing a comedy script, they can all give their opinion on what would be funny for the particular story, and all find a flat ground to agree on what would be hilarious for everyone.
Gilles, D. B. (n.d.). The 4 Rules of Comedy Writing For Screenwriters. Retrieved March 19, 2018, from http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/the-4-rules-of-comedy-writing-for-screenwriters.html
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