Genre: Comedy
Comedy is built to make you laugh — through wit, absurdity, timing, and characters whose flaws and schemes keep tripping them up. Underneath the jokes, the best of it still says something true.
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Home Alone (1990) — Review
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci fresh off Goodfellas, and Three Stooges traps wrapped around a John Hughes Christmas movie about loneliness. Home Alone reviewed at 7.5/10. -
The Chicken Who Outsmarted God
A French chicken named Bernadette escapes her coop using spatial reasoning, defeats a fox, a hawk, and a divine intervention team, and becomes the first poultry to achieve independent entity status. -
20 Comedy and Satire Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics
20 exercises in incongruity, escalation, timing, status reversal, and the structural mechanics that make prose genuinely funny. Genres: Comedy, Satire, Humor -
Greatest Romantic Comedies
The 11 best romantic comedies ever made, analyzed for craft and emotional depth. From Groundhog Day to When Harry Met Sally—films that changed the genre. -
The Crimson Cleanse
Vladislav Mortenson had been undead for three centuries, plenty of time to develop some very unhealthy habits. Not the blood-drinking—that was biological necessity.