
Learn the structure of how to write comedy movies and TV sitcoms, and how to move your own comedy forward, drawing on two decades of experience.
Join the Screenwriting Success Club to access on demand screenwriting courses for film and TV, including zoom sessions, monthly challenges, marketing meetings, movie club, and table reads with pro actors.
Brainstorm and define your idea, choose a sketch, web series, short film, or television pilot, and write daily to develop flawed characters and draft fast with Writerduet.
Learn to craft a comedy screenplay with an engaging opening, clear character goals, inciting incident, and act one through act three with the midpoint, stakes, and B stories.
Learn to craft concise, one-sentence loglines that tease the story and sell your comedy script, using brainstorming and friends' feedback, with careful tweaks to attract producers.
Learn to craft sitcom scripts by writing pilots or spec episodes for existing shows, including research, brainstorming dozens of storylines, drafting and rewriting, and submitting for consideration.
Study how to stay ahead of the audience, be specific, embrace a blue sky period, and use brevity to sharpen humor while shaping escalation, callbacks, and strong setups.
Engage in one-on-one coaching to finish your movies, TV shows, or web series, with weekly or biweekly Zoom sessions and booking via email or the coach’s website.
Discover how tv writing relies on collaboration and being a good hang in the room, not just writing skill, with Frasier reboot stories and safe, personal stories.
Shape tone and characters in a writer's room while developing a pilot and first episode; master pitching, why me why now, and securing reps.
Discover how to pitch jokes, pivot around lines, and navigate multi-cam versus single-cam pacing while shaping compelling story and character arcs for genre and comedy shows.
Learn two pathways into tv writing—becoming undeniably good or starting as an assistant—through milestones from Rick and Morty to New Girl and writers' rooms.
Learn how a chance, poorly formatted script became a television writing career through story-first approach, mentorship, and room experience on Duckman, Cobra Kai, and How I Met Your Mother.
Rewrite after drafting and run a table read with actors to test rhythm and humor. Kill your darlings, simplify scenes, try new actors, and judiciously apply 20–40% of notes.
Discover how showrunners balance joke and story, plan long-term character arcs, and use every character's point of view to guide authentic plots, from outlining to table reads.
This table read of Christmas Staycation illustrates how a comedy script evolves through rewriting jokes, removing songs for rights, and reshaping scenes as a family plans a Zoom Christmas party.
An inventive tv pilot table read introduces a hopeless romantic radio host and his colorful ensemble, weaving romantic misadventures, dating chaos, and prison-tinged hijinks.
Develop your screenwriting craft through coaching sessions that keep your script moving forward, providing accountability and structure to finish your film, TV show, or web series.
Access student resources, one on one weekly coaching, and accountability guidance to move your comedy script forward after completion. Explore script coverage, podcast links, and other courses at jordanemiola.com.
Gain production-aware writing tips for film and tv, including on-set constraints for under-18 actors and pets, optimizing locations and makeup, and crafting producible scripts with strong casting insight.
Learn to write a comedy movie, TV shows, and more.
Comedy screenwriter and showrunner, Jordan Imiola teaches you how to write comedy. Jordan also shares behind-the-scenes stories and lessons learned along the way.
If you’re writing and producing your first sketch or web series or just looking for additional comedy advice for making a TV show or a movie, this course will help you reach your comedy screenwriting and production goals.
After watching this course, you'll have the comedy tools to write sharp and produce humorous original comedy content. After each lesson, work on your comedy content, jokes, and humor until it's finished and out into the world.
These lessons will cover finding your funny idea, writing your script, rewriting your script, assembling table reads with actors, casting, producing humor, editing to find the comedy rhythm, and getting your comedy content into the world.
Jordan Imiola is a prolific screenwriter with over 25 produced credits, and he's written dozens of feature film screenplays. Some companies he's worked at include Fox, Disney, Untitled Entertainment, Marvista Entertainment, and Funny Buffalo Films. He's sold and optioned several screenplays and always meets his deadlines. He also created and co-hosts "The Deadline Junkies Screenwriting Podcast," where he and his two funny friends interview TV Writers, Showrunners, and Successful Screenwriters.