Look at the comedy sub-forum; the scripts with 0 reviews out-number those with reviews!  I can understand people would rather flock to the horror section, but there are eally alot of unread scripts in the comedy section and I'm sure at least a few of them are quite funny.  Even though Hollywood is slowly killing the genre, that's no reason to assume the comedies on simplyscripts suck.  Comedy is of prime importance to joy; don't let the comedy genre die!  Review comedies!

PS.  This is a purely selfless post.  I have never written a comedy, and have no plans to.  But the comedy writers deserve reviews.

I love comedy but I tend to read the work of people who hang around the forums and many writers don't (or at least they don't respond to reviews). From now on I'm trying to read scripts that have been introduced by the author or where the author is someone I know to be an active forum member. I recently gave a very positive review of a comedy script and I was basically brushed off by the writer. I've often written reviews with no acknowledgement at all. What's the point?

It goes back to the old adage 'you only get out what you put in'.

i have trouble reading comedy scripts. I don't know why, but unless the dialogue is smart and witty (i haven't looked far into the comedy section if you know a smart one id love to konw) and the story is really unique i find ready comedy very akward. I have trouble laughing at something on paper, unless it's a funny situation and that usually happens in abook, withen the way they describe. A script often describes things very plain and i dont laugh at the tings that happen, if it were on screen i would.

A comedy should be as funny on paper as it would play on screen. I have one comedy that I ever posted on here because it was written for something specific and gives the director freedom in several areas, and the script is noted in that regard in those places. The areas where I had full liberties (IMHO) are quite funny as written out. If a writer can't put forth the comedy on paper, how is anyone but a comedian supposed to translate it to the screen? There is an SNL sketch somewhere called Slumber Party that is hilarious to read. I think the comedy should show through on the paper.

alot of comedys series are found in the series section in the form of sitcoms, these oftenly get reviewed

It really depends on the type of comedy, some types of comedy really shine because of the actors performance, the writting is key but it's often hard to tell if it's funny. I think that's why people stick with raunchy humor because it's a proven (interms of money making) success, atleast 4 now. SNL has genius writers but that writing wouldn't be half by the comics that perform them. and a lot of those comics are writers onthat show.
I look back on some movies that i laughed and and look through the scripts and I laugh at the funny quotes because i have the way the actor said it in my head and the funny things he/she did.

In my opinion writing a good comedy on paper is tricky. It's something very dangerous to do alone too. Most comedies should be done with a partner, just so you know what you're writing is considered funny to atleast 1 other person than yourself.

To write a successful comedy you need clever dialogue.  I mean yeah, reading a slapstick comedy screenplay isn't the funnest thing in the world to do.  I've read a few of the comedy screenplays on this site and in all honesty, some of them aren't too spectacular because they follow the formulas of immature people, spoofing, or the kind of thing we've seen a million times before.

*UNIQUE* That's what makes a good comedy or good story for that matter.  If you're making Scary Movie 4, well, that's great but we've seen it before.  Unless it's got something special, chances are it won't be as funny as other things.  I was thankful enough to get some pretty good and helpful reviews from my comedy "Addiction," which is based on the Myspace craze, so it's unique in that sense.

There are other exceptional comedies on here, you just gotta look for them.

I enjoyed 'Addiction'. What's the word on the rewrite?

For anyone who cares -- wanting to take a look at a funny script for whatever reason -- I recall that "Elf" was a really funny and clever script -- actually much better then the movie it eventually became.

This one is available on this site.  It is weird how the third act just doesn't translate to the screen for some reason.

Quoted from Martin I enjoyed 'Addiction'. What's the word on the rewrite?

There's currently a rewrite up on the site, shoulda put it in PDF format though.

And Bert, I heard the "Elf" script was hilarious!  That's the kind of cleverness that's fun to read in a comedy script.

Anime and Western are the bastard children that are forgotten so I wouldn't complain about Comedy all that much.

Well, there are only 8 and 6 scripts in each, respectively.  There are 127 comedy scripts, putting it above Action, series, Sci-fi and even thriller, all of which get read more.

I think the fact that Anime and Western have so little should mean the reviews should be higher than they are.

I looked at a lot of Comedy scripts a few months back and they are not even formatted and if people in this day and age cannot even take 5 minutes to format a god forsaken screenplay than why should we waste any time to read it? They don't care so why should we?

I'm not going to read screenplays when the authors don't even care enough to stay long enough to get a review or ask for one.

One reason that people post on this site though is to learn. Just because the format is bad doesn't mean the story isn't good; it just means the person doesn't know how to format. This is something many of us are well versed with and could teach a monkey how to do on a typewriter. Don't discount the script just because the format isn't up to spec. I recall one person's format was not so great, but then I worked with him on it and his next script posted was formatted very well. Bad formt doesn't make a bad story. I'm sure there are many great novelists who could pen a great screenplay, but not format it right because they never knew what to look for.

I'm totally with you on the author hanging about. Otherwise, a review is kinda pointless.

Great writing isn't about great formatting, however, if you're going to post your script on a site containing countless examples of well-formatted screenplays, the least you can do is browse around and attempt to format your script correctly. It's not just formatting either, many writers explain backstory and characters' emotions in their action description. That's just plain wrong.

I agree.  Before I started writing I spent a great deal of effort finding a website that explained the format.  Then I asked questions on the forum as I wrote.  If people aren't willing to put work into making it easy for me to read their script, I won't put much work into giving feedback.

It's true that bad formatting makes a bad script, but many of the stories I've read on here that had horrendous formatting usually had a horrendous and trite story.  When I say horrendous formatting, I mean the spacing is all over the place, there's all this garbage in it that doesn't need to be there, and bad grammar and technical stuff above all else.  

That's partly because thankfully Don doesn't have any requirements to post your work on here, which I guess is a gift and a curse depending on if you're the reader or the writer.  Yeah, it is aggravating that there's a bunch of quality, perfectly formatted screenplays up here and people are too lazy to fix their own structure problems, but if they learn then that's making progress.