Bridesmaids (2011)

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How do you make extended technical scenes funny on the page?

AI✦Examines how Bridesmaids uses deliberate overwriting and extended action paragraphs to pace physical comedy on the page, forcing readers to slow down and absorb the geography and timing of the food poisoning sequence.✦

⏱ 1h 35m

Words · Structure · Genre | 26 FEB 2025

Listen if you're writing physical comedy and have no idea how to make it work on the page

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Mel joins Chas to tackle physical comedy. We limited our homework selection to extended scenes (as opposed to moments and sight gags) in live action projects and – with the help of our Patreons – selected early sequences from BRINGING UP BABY, the pilot for HAPPY ENDINGS and that wonderful food poisoning scene in BRIDESMAIDS… →

Films: Bridesmaids (2011) , Bringing Up Baby (1938) , Game Night (2018) , Happy Endings (2011)

Shows: Happy Endings 1x01

Words: Big Print , Whitespace , Dialogue

Structure: Setups & Payoffs , Narrative Velocity , Narrative POV

Genre: Visual Language , Genre Conventions

"Most of the rest of the characters are now just in panic mode. And so it's a lot of action and then a lot of yelling."

— mel | DZ-116: Writing Physical Comedy