Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
Harold RamisFor me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.
Harold RamisMy only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
Harold RamisWe all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis