Not So Wild and Crazy Writing Advice

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Oct 05 2022 | 00:05:47

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Steve Martin had a catch phrase from his time on SNL and standup that he was a wild and crazy guy. He had an entirely different persona in the skit but you could feel it and tell he’d been inspired by something in real life and turned it into comedy through exaggeration. Now, decades after […]

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