I think another part of it is that good, successful comedy with broad appeal is so hard to do that anyone who can write comedy well can write pretty much anything. You have to be so story-smart that you can take those skills to almost any genre in a way that someone who’s good at superhero stories, for instance, might not be.
I think another part of it is that good, successful comedy with broad appeal is so hard to do that anyone who can write comedy well can write pretty much anything. You have to be so story-smart that you can take those skills to almost any genre in a way that someone who’s good at superhero stories, for instance, might not be.