How to Write a Comedy Sketch. You should treat these like short films. You're going to use screenwriting software to type them eventually. And you may want to start with an outline.

Sketch comedy is the perfect outlet for spreading your wings as a comedian while marrying the art form with the conventions of theater and/or film. Let’s strap on our wigs, write out our game ...

Writing sketches, part two. In Writing sketches, part one, we examined issues such as finding an idea and formatting, and simple comic techniques such as misdirection and callbacks.. In this piece, we ...

“Sketch Comedy allows us to skewer the foibles of human nature and our modern society — it’s good practice to laugh at ...

Nothing is sketchy about the dedication of the Shenanigans Comedy Club at UCLA’s Sketch team. The team is one of four ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, about a woman in her 30s working for this weekly comedy sketch show.

Writing sketches, part one. Sketch comedy has been a staple of British television for decades. From Monty Python to The Fast Show, ... For an in-depth walkthrough of sketch writing see our tutorial.