{"id":170,"date":"2015-01-15T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-01-15T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:44:36","slug":"10-commandments-for-comedy-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2015\/01\/15\/10-commandments-for-comedy-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Commandments for Comedy (1947)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 719px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10-Commandments-for-Comedy-Sponsor-1947-01-1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[170]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10-Commandments-for-Comedy-Sponsor-1947-01-1.jpg\" alt=\"10 Commandments for Comedy\" width=\"709\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10-Commandments-for-Comedy-Sponsor-1947-01-1.jpg 709w, https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/10-Commandments-for-Comedy-Sponsor-1947-01-1-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <em>Sponsor<\/em> magazine, 1947.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What strikes me most about Ernest Walker&#8217;s &#8220;Ten Commandments&#8221; is the strict division between &#8220;characterization, situation, and gags,&#8221; which he warns against mixing.<\/p>\n<p>To my way of thinking, characterization and situation are both part of narrative, which can be interrupted by gags&#8211;much as musical numbers or sex scenes can delay the progression of narrative in film.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also intrigued by the specific timing Walker demands for laughs: 12 seconds between gags and 22 seconds between &#8220;situation laughs.&#8221; This is something I&#8217;m exploring statistically with <a href=\"http:\/\/shotlogger.org\/LaughLogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laugh Logger<\/a>, a new site designed to measure the time between laughs on TV laugh tracks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What strikes me most about Ernest Walker&#8217;s &#8220;Ten Commandments&#8221; is the strict division between &#8220;characterization, situation, and gags,&#8221; which he warns against mixing. To my way of thinking, characterization and situation are both part of narrative, which can be interrupted<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2015\/01\/15\/10-commandments-for-comedy-1947\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-production","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}