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Adam McKay has a cool interview in Poking a Dead Frog. His reasoning behind the RB characters are actually brilliant.

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Writers Bloc with J.R. Havlan

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Also, you had best be listening to the top rated Comedy Podcasts, so you know what people are laughing at, and whose name to know.

The follow up to "Here's the Kicker," "Poking a Dead Frog", is good, too.

Read Mike Sack's "Poking A Dead Frog". It has interviews with comedy writers of various formats.

Comedy Author Mike Sacks Calls In -- Papa's Basement Show #421 -- SFW

You may have heard the name Mike Sacks. He's an author for Vogue, Esquire, and a lot of other fancy magazines that you tried to jerk off to as a kid before you had porn. Mike calls in to promote his fantastic new book Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers. The names he got for the book are incredible, ranging from Mel Brooks to Marc Maron to Amy Poehler. If you've ever wanted to break into comedy writing and didn't know how, or just love comedy and want a great read/listen, give the book and the episode a try.

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Poking A Dead Frog

Instead of being a step by step guide on how to write comedy, which in my opinion is a terrible way to write, it's mainly conversations with some of the top comedy writers along with a couple extra tidbits ( Bill Hader's 200 essential comedy movies to watch)

Wow thanks, I really need to hit a bunch of open mics and suffer some bombs to neutralize all of this validation.

I'm still trying to develop a solid writing habit to be honest, it's very difficult for me to maintain a steady productive flow.

I'd recommend reading Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks and Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow, both are collections of interviews and advice with amazing comedians and comedy writers. You can get some fantastic advice there but mostly it's just inspiring and motivating.

For writing specifically, the only book I'd seriously recommend is How to Write Funny by Scott Dikkers, he was a founding editor of The Onion and it's a slim, no nonsense book.

Adam McKay has a cool interview in Poking a Dead Frog. His reasoning behind the RB characters are actually brilliant.