Book Review: The Cheeky Monkey - Writing Narrative Comedy
I don't know of many books that focus specifically on writing narrative comedy so when I discovered The Cheeky Monkey, Writing Narrative Comedy by one of Australia's comedy legends, Tim Ferguson (international readers my know him better as one third of the comedy trio, the Doug Anthony All Stars ), I knew it was a book I'd buy. Narrative comedy is comedy that tells a story, most often in the form of a TV Sitcom (the focus of this book) but also extends to movies, theatre and pretty much every other form of story telling. At just over 200 pages this book doesn't mess about over analyzing every topic. It tells you the basics, offers a few examples and, particularly in the earlier chapters, gives you an exercise to try what you've learned for yourself. If you're anything like me, you'll probably read through the exercises but won't actually do them unless you've purchased this book as part of an actual course, with a proper lecturer and everything. Sin