The Rules and Lingo of Comedy Writing

In this week's episode we take a look at the comedy writing lingo and the rules of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the film making trio that brought you Airplane!, The Naked Gun and Top Secret! Showing that even in comedies as seemingly scattershot as the ZAZ films, there is a method to the madness. You have to know why the rules work before you break them, or you may find you have deadly silence in places where you were expecting laughs to be. (I've been there. It's not fun.)

Plus! Soccer talk! The confusing corporate structures of "The Office". We totally recognize people on "Last Comic Standing". And a desperate plea for a listeners to google something. We would do it ourselves, but you know, we're, like, busy and stuff.