Brainstorming Comedic Games

When it comes to brainstorming comedic games for your scene or show, we’ve pulled together a bunch of useful wiki articles and our thoughts.

Must Read Articles

• Game

• Point of View

• Sketch Writing Process - Observation → change → game → beats

• Mapping

• Heightening / Escalation

• Desire & Disaster - Goals, Stakes and Problems

• Pinch Ouch/ Making Things Worse

• Beat (In Relation to Game)

• Bit

Our Advice

• What problems or difficulties arise around your idea/ theme?

• What are some consequences (logical and illogical) that come out of your idea so far? “If this, then that?”

• How can you interact with the audience?

• Follow the fun, what’s making you laugh? Follow that instinct.

• Find a point of view or emotion and push it to an extreme or put it in an unusual context.

• Remember games are simple repeatable comedic patterns, if you have a seed of a funny idea, how can you get the most mileage from that idea, keep playing that game and escalate.