{"id":8189,"date":"2020-07-14T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8189"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:29:27","slug":"do-you-have-to-be-angry-to-write-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/do-you-have-to-be-angry-to-write-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have to Be Angry to Write Comedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Q&amp;A: Do You Have To Be Angry To Write Comedy?\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vehGo4vkBiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robin Williams once stated that the source of his comedy &#8220;comes from anger, because I&#8217;m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it&#8217;s hardest to see.&#8221; In this Storylogue Q&#038;A video, Robert McKee explains why anger is the root of all great comedy, and why comedians must be wary of getting too comfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee explains why anger is the root of all great comedy, and why comedians must be wary of getting too comfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13390,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8189\/revisions\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}