Comedy Legend David Zucker Reveals Untold Stories Behind Ryan Reynolds, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Hollywood’s Hidden Secrets
Ashley
Do you do some table reads for comedy? Like, do you get some actors? Do you kind of test the comedy out at all?
David Zucker
We read it out loud to ourselves. And that’s enough. Yeah, that really is a big help.
Ashley
So, you mentioned you climb up the tree, you throw stones at the tree, and then you bring the guy down at the tree as your three-act structure. How do you approach screenplay structure in terms of Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat, Sid Field? Just how do you feel about those sort of very template, sort of pragmatic approaches to it?
