Writing: Comedy Screenwriting Course

Learn the skills of screenwriting and movie script writing with our writing short courses online and in Sydney!

Learn the techniques and tricks to bring your humour to life with this Comedy Screenwriting Course! Whether you're an aspiring screenwriter or a seasoned storyteller looking to add humor to your work, this course offers the perfect environment to hone your skills and develop your unique comedic voice.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Comedy Screenwriting Course, you should be able to: 

• Understand the principles of creating comic characters
• Apply the techniques needed to create comedy character conflicts
• Write jokes and narrative gags and create comedy stories, identifying and establishing comedy story themes
• Develop comedy character ensembles and work with comedy character archetypes
• Understand the different formats and challenges of writing web series, sketch, sitcoms and comedy features
• Package and sell your specific comedy concept
• Portfolio development or sample script creation

Course content

What will be covered in this Comedy Screenwriting Course?

Week 1: Creating comedy characters

Discover simple techniques for creating or improving your comedy characters. Ironies, exaggeration, limited perspective - everything you need to know to make your characters funny.

Week 2: Create comedy character teams

Comedy needs conflict! This class will show you techniques for combining Comedy characters for maximum conflict impact. Ideal for sitcom writing, where you need the conflicts to erupt every episode!

Week 3: Comedy story structures

Comedies differ from drama stories. Discover how to apply the best Comedy storytelling techniques. So your stories start funny and stay funny.

Week 4: How to write Comedy Movies, Sitcom, Plays, Web-series, Sketch

Comedy comes in different forms. Discover the principles for building your ideas for Film, TV and the web.

Week 5: Build funny dialogue & jokes

New techniques for spicing your dialogue with humour. There are simple insights (wordplay, misinterpretations, reversals) that will get your audiences, laughing!

Week 6: Pitch your comedy ideas

You’ve done all the hard work building your comedy scripts. Now, we’ll explore the ways you need for selling them to the world.

Intended audience

Who is this Comedy Screenwriting Course for?

This Comedy Screenwriting Course is suitable for students of any ability or experience level.

Individuals pursuing careers in television writing, digital media and screen production. 

Course venue

Online via Zoom