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Genre families · Working

Comedy

Also called: comic genre

ELI5

Storytelling organised around comic perception, behaviour, incongruity or social tension.

Used in conversation

“Can we make the comedy more specific in the pitch?”

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe who the project follows, where it lives and what kind of experience it promises.

When the words have to travel

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