At the age of 16, Rob Reiner came up with this joke. He passed it along to his father, the pioneering director and comedian ...

Properly storylining your script before you start writing saves enormous time and frustration later. Some writers can open their laptop and make it up as they go along, but this is a very rare skill, ...

A script for a Blackadder take on the Nativity story that was never made ‘for fear it would cause too much offence’ is going under the hammer. Richard Curtis started writing the episode with Ben Elton ...

Your script is how all the key elements of a narrative comedy - characters, world, story, scenes and dialogue - come together in a professional, realisable document. As we have said many times, we don ...