Take my course. You’d be student number 1 so lots of focus.

I took two courses in college taught by the guy who wrote Groundhog Day. @ARCADE_GOON is right actually I did have a lot of privilege lol

I remember coming back from break once. There was this weird sort of student (small class) who had a pet pig. We came back and she had shoplifted over break and it became a big story. That’s how I found out she was Rudy Giuliani’s daughter. You can imagine. Tough on crime father. Shoplifter daughter. Hollywood couldn’t script it better

My TikTok is basically gonna be a course in various 60 second videos

You uploading anywhere other than tiktok? I haven’t sold my soul to them yet

Also I honestly don’t want to be a public persona for obvious and non obvious reasons. Although seeing what it’s done for Hasan does make me reconsider

Lol I hate those theories but it could be a fun sort of movie or show

People always think someone died for a sacrifice when rappers just have real beef

I did a video on this that maybe I’ll post on YouTube. I hate the Boosie “people in your city just hate you” video because it’s so dumb

Many rappers have done dirt in the streets and it catches up to them

@op You know the movie Drumline right? Now just imagine a spinoff that's the exact same plot but instead of drumming, it's about Nick Cannon's kid going to dental school. It's called Gumline

You think Hollywood would fw this idea?

Holy s*** lmao

During the summer they’re onboarding so many people that I think I just slipped through the cracks. By the time they realized it, I was like a year in. I just sort of slipped through the cracks and was like “yeah I’m working on getting them to fix it”

Of course always always always be up front and transparent with any sort of employer or close friends and family about s*** like that and s*** in general. I was young and stupid

You joke but this might have killed in the 90’s. Especially when home video was such a huge market. I often think about how “The Santa Clause” is a movie based entirely on a silly pun and it did $190m box office on a $22m budget. Also had 2 sequels. Puns are big business. Can’t go wrong with puns

Gunline is obviously not a pun, but you’re playing in the right zip code. This is what gets people agents

I was in school at UCB for screenwriting but I gave up on it after my 2nd scholarship ran out lmao
The politics of it too weird for me

To contribute to this thread in a different manner: How do you deal with the fact that, in the past few years of the American public conscious, reality has been stranger than fiction?

For example, Donald Trump of all people becoming president - it is seriously weird to think about in hindsight. Or the pandemic ravaging the world as well. Or said gameshow president actually getting infected by said killer virus right before the re-election bid - it would sound cliché on paper if it hadn't had really happened.

I would assume writing comedy in the 90s, where the USA won a Cold War and things seemed prosperous in this country, would have been different than writing comedy in the 2020s - just on the basis of the USA being in a different spot than before.

And more generally, when writing socially conscious comedy: How do you strike a balance between commentary, preaching and comedy? A common critique is that current (stand-up) comedy is more like a secular sermon, like Dave Chappelle's complaint-fests, than the comedy of old.

What do you do when you get stuck on something
Been on and off writing a horror movie and I always lose an edge on where to go with it

The twitch streamer Hasan?

Yeah, OP posted a video of them together a few pages back.

I have part one of a 3 part thing on sitcom story structure and sitcom writing here

youtu.be/sF__7ZX2MgQ

And all three parts (audio) here: patreon.com/funnythingpod

Thank you, but I'm not joking I've thought about how the scenes in Drumline were shot to make it seem like the actors are actually playing the drums when they're not and how similar techniques could be used for the flossing and dental surgery scenes in Gumline. This one of the few good ideas I've had in my life, tryna get a bag off this fr

Only because someone brought him up. I would never bring him up unprompted as that would be cringe

Don’t give the sauce away for free

Many people said “no” to squid games

@op tell hasan to collab with jidion

Y’all writing script ideas in here about to have to use ktt thread to sue a Nigga

You scaring the hoes

We don’t want hoes that get scared that easily anyways

this is really a pitch thread lmao

What if OP made this thread cause he knew posters would send him free ideas. Genius.