The Job of a Laughtime: The Complete Comedy Writer

• Comedy writing 101!
• Brad Ashton ( of The Dalek Outer Space Book);
• The job of a laughtime | Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop.
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Baron Cohen's contempt is universal, his critics charge. And even a sympathetic viewer has to wonder whether a man who puts himself and his dupes in next-to-mortal danger doesn't deserve some clinical study.

Or maybe genius, especially comic genius, is a personality disorder. Or maybe Baron Cohen, who wrote a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil-rights movement in the American South and did some of his research there, is returning to the scene of those old battles for further study of the white Southerners whose brothers killed his kinsmen, bent on the revenge of ridicule.

The line of those reviewers who have soured on Baron Cohen is this: Borat, for all his idiocies, was a genial, ingratiating creature, which is why people of many social strata and prejudices opened up to him, and why the character was able to insinuate himself into filmgoers' hearts.

The central character this time is not nearly so ingratiating. In fact, he's a pain in the ass.

And that is their critique of the film. Anyone can create laughter.

It can be taught. Most women, for instance, will tell you that the thing they found most attractive in a man was his sense of humor. If you can make those few words funny, you will be remembered and head the ever-popular guest list. Comedy is even appropriate at funerals. He was such a hypochondriac that he even put in his will that he had to be buried next to a doctor.

I am frequently asked what I think of the modern day stand-up comedians.