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<div>Christy Waites’ Comedy Plots</div>
“What I’ve Learned…”
This was fun, and I felt like I could do more. I took my characters from one of my high concept ideas from earlier this year and used them for this assignment. I’ve been watching the best animation movies of last year recently, so I now have animation on the brain. That’s what I was thinking when I was writing these plot ideas—adult animations, of course. After the two days of lessons here, I’ve found that this came easier than plot ideas for comedies have come to me previously. Then I feel that I was actually forcing comedy to happen.
Fish out of water: Bey, a winged,
horned Fae from the 7<sup style=”font-family: inherit;”>th</sup> Realm of Existence is placed in 21<sup style=”font-family: inherit;”>st</sup>
century Earth by her Master, Nadir, for disobeying a direct order. She
must survive, without her powers, as an Earthling in New York City for 30
days.Incongruent pairings: Bey, a
winged, horned Fae from the 7<sup style=”font-family: inherit;”>th</sup> Realm of Existence, is pitted
against Joseph, an ancient mighty Gollum, in a decathlon on Earth by their
Masters, Nadir and Zenith; however, Joseph becomes disillusion in winning for
his master’s pure enjoyment when he finds that he is in love with Bey. (ha! a Romantic/Comedy at that, and I hate Rom/Coms! :D)Hilarious purpose:
Bey, a winged, horned Fae from the 7<sup style=”font-family: inherit;”>th</sup> Realm of
Existence, is sent to find a rare flower, a Violet, in 21<sup style=”font-family: inherit;”>st</sup>
century Earth. However, since she has never seen a Violet before, (Is it bluer?
Is it redder? What do the leaves look like? Are the petals rosettes or
long with a point?), she is misled many times on her search. She must
succeed because in her realm, the Violet is the number one ingredient of a
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Margaret’s Comedy plots
What I learned: Three plots that set up your script for comedy.
1. Fish out of water – An independent woman is forced to stay in a nursing home.
2. Incongruent pairings – An independent, sane woman is forced to rely on dementia patients for help.
3. Hilarious purpose – An independent woman plans her escape from a nursing home with a team of dementia patients.
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DAY 2 WILLIAM BEASLEY COMEDY PLOTS
PREMISE
WOMAN TAKING DRIVING TEST RUNS INTO RACE CAR DRIVER.
FISH OUT OF WATER
WOMAN HAS TO RUSH INJURED DRIVER THRU HEAVY TRAFFIC.
INCONGRUENT PAIRING
WOMAN IGNORES DRIVER’S DIRECTIONS AND ATTEMPTS TO FLIRT.
HILARIOUS PURPOSE
WITH DRIVER’S INJURY, WOMAN HAS TO TAKE DRIVER’S PLACE AT THE INDY 500 RACE.
CHARACTER
HOUSE PAINTER.
FISH OUT OF WATER
GETS ASKED TO PAINT A PORTRAIT.
INCONGRUENT PAIRING
ONLY TEACHER AVAILABLE IS A GRAFFITI ARTIST.
HILARIOUS PURPOSE
THE PORTRAIT REQUEST IS TO PAINT A PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT.
WHAT I’VE LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS USING PLOTTING TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP COMEDIC IDEAS.
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(ECLIPSE NEILSON) Comedy plots
What I’ve learn is to look over all the possibilities one can do with the three plots.
1.Fish out of water: RADNA , a sophisticated hippie type woman with a new age flare and psychic gifts is placed unwillingly in a conservative retirement home where everyone is in a snooty clique and has mostly given up on life.
2.Incongruent pairings : A circle of women with very different backgrounds and life styles become best friends to fight for a common cause their home.
THE GROUP
A)RADNA recovering from a wealthy dysfunctional family and confers with ghost has little patience and
B) TILDA who secretly came from old time gypsies talks too much and is a people pleaser.
C) ANNE (97) says very little has a hard time keeping her head up, says what she means and often shocks people with her few words and fowl language and
D) SILVIA a over eater people please devout catholic
E) JEANIE a secretly gay women who loss her wife a few years before.
F) MARTHA a cold hearted, successful black business woman .
3.Hilarious purpose : Radna must lead a mostly conservative group of women and help them cross all their boundaries and beliefs and seek help from three of her spirited ghost friends –
A) GEORGE WELLWORTH and is companions – the original owners of the mansion –
B) A young child dancer (Radna’s lost spirit child plays with tarot cards and
C) a roaring twenties madam of the evening – ( Radna’s mother ghost )
Each have an idea how to save the home and all send the women out on what seems like an impossible sometimes outrageous tasks.
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Larry’s Comedy Plots
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is:
– To take an ordinary situation or individual and create a comedic situation by contriving incongruities in terms of a fish out of water, incongruent pairings or hilarious circumstances.
PREMISE: An uber driver gives a ride to a movie starlet.
1. Fish out of waterThe uber driver takes the starlet to a movie studio, is mistaken for a movie star and dragged into a movie shoot.
2. Incongruent pairings
An uber driver and a vain starlet fall into a large sinkhole and must deal with the problem and each other.
3. Hilarious purpose
The movie starlet hires an uber driver in order to escape a jealous, possessive violent lover who is chasing her.
CHARACTER: A small town, fire-and-brimstone preacher of the late 1800’s time travels to the same town 100 years later.
1. Fish out of water
The preacher finds out the local church has just lost its leader and he takes over the job. He must adjust to the times and his “flock” while the flock adjusts to him.
2. Incongruent pairings
The preacher meets the town hooker and he works on saving her soul while she works on getting him into bed. (cross purposes)
3. Hilarious purpose
The preacher makes it his crusade to clean up the town and save it from its sinful ways – with the help of his senior citizen flock, of course.
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Ross Darlington
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is 3 comedy plots that would make for a funny script.
1. Fish out of water
An accountant on vacation is mistaken for a secret agent.
2. Incongruent pairings
A sexy hooker and married dentist
3. Hilarious purpose
a retired detective is hired to find a missing dog
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Day 2 darryl brant
Comedy Plots
What I learned from this assignment is comedy can from a wide variety of plots outrageous as some of them may seem and to explore every possible avenue for your idea and your character.
PREMISE
A recluse woman is turned into a zombie after a bite from her infected, beloved dog.
1. Fish out of water –A woman is turned into a zombie after a bite from her undead dog but doesn’t realize she’s a zombie.
2. Incongruent pairings –
A recently turned zombie who has a distaste for human blood with a man bleeding out.
3. Hilarious purpose –A new zombie has to find how to ‘survive’ as she doesn’t like the taste of blood.
CHARACTER
An overly patriotic man who only loves his country.
1. Fish out of water –
A patriotic man finds himself in a foreign land that doesn’t like his home country.
2. Incongruent pairings –
A patriotic man finds himself falling for an Asian woman.
3. Hilarious purpose –
A man tries to ‘Americanize’ a foreign culture.
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Ron Basci Comedy Plots Day 2
What I learned:
By combining the three types into a narrative, a story has its beginnings.
Recent environmental studies college grad with his head in the clouds heads for Alaska to save the world.
While fighting nature in the remote wilderness he meets and recruits a 50ish rugged female individualist to his cause: climate change.
After convincing the skeptical pragmatist to be a bit more concerned about the outside world, they agree to spark a social media movement to repurpose the Keystone pipeline. How to repurpose is a mystery. Let the people decide, they agree. Once begun, environmentalists applaud the initiative, while Big Oil and others gather oppose it. A great debate spreads across the land. As the movement continues to gain steam, the public turns to our heroes. What is YOUR plan?
Asked directly during a televised interview, our grad hastily comes up with a solution. We should transport ice in its liquid form to be refrozen at its destination points, he says. This will mitigate global warming.
The initiative immediately fails as California and several Western states object claiming that they need water to be water. Fallen after a moment of glory, our hero accepts a teaching position at a community college while our erstwhile heroine returns to her beloved isolation.
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DAY 2 Artūrs Kozels
What I have learned is that comedy has 3 plots.
PREMISE:
A passionate striptease dancer who’s hired as a security guard at the airport night before Christmas eve.
1. Fish out of water
Left alone at a security check on Christmas eve he attempts to flirt with the leader of the group of terrorists.
2. Incongruent pairing
The leader of the group of terrorists turns out to be bisexual who goes on an airplane with his fiancee.
3. Hilarious purpose
The striptease dancer walks naked in an airplane to save people from blowing up as he tries to win the hand of the leader of terrorists.
CHARACTER:
A heavy metal/drug addict has his dream tour coming up in a week.
1. Fish out of water
Gets asked to look after his dead brother’s little daughter who plays the flute and lives in the countryside.
2. Incongruent pairing
The little daughter is very sensitive to loud noises and hates rock.
3. Hilarious purpose
The star’s manager forces the heavy metal to cooperate with a little relative to come up with a new track to save his spot on stage along with other artists.
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DAY 2 – ASSIGNMENT
Title: Alan’s Comedy Plots
What I learned from this assignment is: These three plots can create some very funny situations.
1. Fish out of water:
A prissy Econ PhD Investment Banker discovers a massive corporate fraud endangering her life and she goes into hiding working for a high school dropout organic farmer.
2. Incongruent pairings:
A prissy Econ PhD Investment Banker falls in love with a high school dropout organic farmer.
3. Hilarious purpose:
A prissy Econ PhD Investment Banker and a high school dropout organic farmer investigate counterfeit organic produce suppliers.
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Will’s Comedy plot
Premise: American WWII flyers meet British showgirls.
Fish out of water
Ace flyers in uniform at an after-hours party with a dozen very available beauties who are lusting after them.
Incongruent pairings
American country bumpkins with a harem of harlots. Gee, what’s a boy to do?
Hilarious purpose
The fellers thought they had seen danger in the skies over England, France, and Germany until they met their match in the boudoir.
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What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that I enjoyed brainstorming for these scenarios.
Premise:
Tiny home village for senior citizens on 2 acre empty lot surrounded by farmland
Fish out of water: formerly wealthy widow lost her 10,000sqft mansion and is forced to move here
Incongruent pairing: a landlord and her former tenant now live in this village, both as renters
Hilarious purpose: a vegan attempts to cure all the ailments of the seniors with a plant-based diet from the community garden
Character: A senior lady becomes a motorcycle rider and enthusiast at the age of 60+
Fish out of water: She signs up for a biker weekend she thought was for knitting but turns out to be S & M
Incongruent pairing: She works with parade committee and will be riding to represent her church but she’s paired with the only other rider who represents atheists.
Hilarious purpose: She attempts to set a world record by forming a national MC for seniors and goes cross country recruiting riders from assisted care facilities.
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Sherri D. Coffee – Plotting for Comedy
What I learned doing this assignment was to brainstorm different plots to develop a concept.
Character: Demanding Female executive agrees to coordinate a Tennis boot camp trip for her club team.
1. Fish out of water: Female executive encounters tedious demands and time-consuming details when she organizes a tennis boot camp trip for her club team.
2. Incongruent pairings: Female executive coordinates trip for: wealthy socialite who has never worked: marketing manager who is obsessed with online dating; and recently divorced woman who just lost job.
3. Hilarious purpose: All of the ladies want to escape their daily lives.
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Lori’s Plotting for Comedy
What I’ve learned: There are three basic plots that work very well for comedy, but I am not limited to these three. I can use other plot structures and still have a comedy through the characters and dialogue.
PREMISE: An AI is hired to temporarily fill mom’s shoes.
Fish out of water
Everything related to the family and house is new to the AI.
Incongruent pairings
An AI placed inside a traditional family.
Hilarious purpose
The AI decides she wants to take mom’s place permanently.
CHARACTER: A nerdy teenager is hired by the mob to hack a rival’s business.
Fish out of water
The teen stands out as a scared weakling among the mob.
Incongruent pairings
The mob boss empathizes with the teen and takes him under his wing.
Hilarious purpose
The teen realizes that he can take down the mob family and its rival with his knowledge.
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