All Embracing But Underwhelming…

There are times where I don’t know whether something is funny because of its context or whether it is just funny in its own right. Take for example the late, great Mr. Vonnegut’s novel ‘Timequake.’ In the Vintage edition of the book, printed in 1998 in New Zealand, a certain punchline to a gag occurs [...]

Read this. It’s Simon Pegg (of ‘Spaced), Graham Linehan (the writer of ‘Father Ted’ and ‘The IT Crowd’) and some other comedic chappies discussing videogame writing.
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Jane Espenon, writer of such fabulousities as ‘Buffy…’Gilmore Girls’ and now owner of a development deal at NBC/Universal recently wrote an illuminating post on spoken dialogue that sounds as if it were written (using Anya, from ‘Buffy…’ as an excellent example). As someone who speaks in written form and who has a penchant (?) for [...]