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733 - Learning Comedy

Scriptnotes Podcast by John August

Apr 28, 202601:01:24TV & Film

John welcomes five-time Emmy-winning writer Ali Barthwell (Last Week Tonight) to ask, can writers learn to be funny? Drawing from her time as a teacher at The Second City, they look at what writers can learn from sketch...

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