Characters
The Straight Character and the Comic Foil
The straight character and comic foil create different kinds of friction; shape their competing aims to give a comic…
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Characters
Look at the habits, blind spots and clashes that give comic characters their shape.
Our point of view
A laugh has a working shape.
Urban Comedy Review looks at the choices beneath comic effect: what a line sets up, what a character misses and when a scene changes direction.