comedy writers

• sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
• punchlineHumor's final delivery
• jokesHumorous remarks or stories
• sketchesRough, quick drawings
• late-nightOccurring after dark

monologue · timing · wit · satire · roast · stand-up · improv · script · gag · quip · room · pitch · rewrite · deadline · SNL · spec · callback · setup

• dramatistsplaywrights, dramatists, dramaturgs, dramaturges
• Elizabethan writersplaywrights, poets, sonneteers, dramatists, chroniclers
• Writers GuildWGA, screenwriters, staff writers, showrunners, sitcom writers
• humoristshumorists, wits, satirists, comics, comedians
• comedy typesclown, satire, parody, farce, slapstick
• Greek writersHomer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes