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Half-hour television comedy craft (半小时情景喜剧/笑点力学/困境机器/多机位单机位格式) — merged from Evan S. Smith's Writing Television Sitcoms (premise-driven comedy in three levels, nine predicaments, six character mixes, setup/punchline mechanics, toppers, running gags, ten comedic nuances, format rules), Neil Landau's sitcom seven-step formula and comedy-room models, Richard Blum's act-length and set-count parameters, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag scripts (direct address as a season-long device, six-episode skeleton), Pamela Douglas on dramedy, Kam Miller on complementary comic traits, and Jesse Armstrong on jokes carrying tragedy. Use when writing or fixing a sitcom episode or spec, raising joke density per page, designing a comic predicament that generates stories, choosing between multi-camera and single-camera format and page counts, structuring cold open/acts/tag, writing a half-hour pilot, running a comedy punch-up, or making a drama funny without shifting genre.

When to use

• writing or fixing a sitcom episode or spec
• raising joke density per page
• designing a comic predicament
• choosing between multi-camera and single-camera format
• structuring cold open, acts, and tag
• writing a half-hour pilot
• running a comedy punch-up
• making a drama funny without shifting genre

When not to use

• general dialogue writing
• scene value shifts
• one-hour drama act structure
• series engine and bible creation
• writers room management
• Fleabag episode-by-episode analysis
• American formatting for Chinese scripts

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