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07 December 2022 - 05:00
A good comedy is not about silly people doing silly things, filmmaker and scriptwriter Jonathan Lynn reminds us. Lynn was co-writer with Anthony Jay of the British satirical series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.
“Comedy has to be about something important — important to the characters, and important to the society in which it is played,” Lynn wrote in Comedy Rules: From the Cambridge Footlights to Yes Prime Minister. “It is about serious characters doing desperate things because they have left themselves no choice.”..
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