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Sketch Comedy

A Comprehensive Guide to Writing & Producing Your First Sketch

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By: Walt Frasier
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 This book has been in my head for four years. It's great for students, teachers or anyone interested in writing and producing sketch comedy.
  • Section One: The History of Comedy to Today's Sketch Comedy: Do you know the world's oldest joke?
  • Section Two: Elements of Sketch Comedy Writing: Characters, Setting, Style, etc.
  • Sections Three: Let's write your first/next sketch - Brainstorming, Improv, Outlines and Drafts
  • Section Four: Producing your sketch on stage or video

EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH started performing in Times Square since 2002, Now famous for its off-Broadway Improv comedy shows and touring company, until 2004, 8 Improv was mostly a sketch comedy show. We took influences from both Television and Live Sketch formats, including the political satire musical cabaret style of Capitol Steps. We started around the same time social media became a thing. Our earliest gigs came from folks finding us on MYSPACE, PSEUDO.com (including FOUR live shows broadcast worldwide from their SOHO studios) and soon after watching videos of our live shows and original comedy sketch films on YOUTUBE, Funny or Die, Google Video (before they merged with YouTube), other platforms that have since disappeared and mew platforms we seem to discover daily.

In 2005, I made my Television Debut doing sketch comedy on MTV’s Stankervision. In the following year I appeared on nine episodes of Late Nite with David Letterman in various sketch bits. In more recent years I appeared in “Friends of the People” on TruTV and “Pause with Sam Jay” on HBO.

In 2020, we temporarily moved our operations onto zoom. In August 2020 I published my first book, IMPROV ON ZOOM, and soon after STAND-UP COMEDY both designed for kids & teens. We also started creating remote sketches with both our top teen students, known as THE CLASS CLOWNS, and our professional comedy cast members and friends. Zoom became the writer’s room for brainstorming and bouncing ideas around and reading through scripts. We would GREENLIGHT a project and send instructions for filming to each actor. A google cloud folder hosted all the raw clips for an editor to download and piece together. Using cheap green screens and carefully planned out shots, we made folks look like they were having conversations and put actors around the world, underwater and even in space stations for a Star Wars parody.

Now many of those students are in film school with aspirations to write for Saturday Night Live or create their own show. This book is for them and the amazing students that will follow in their footsteps.

I hope you enjoy discovering the brief history of comedy, the roots in sketch comedy and then use the tools to find your own comedic voice and usher in the future.

Sincerely,
Walt Frasier
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