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The Scenario Writer
the heights with such originals as Emma and The Big House.
Grover Jones is another successful combination scenarist and original author.
Related to the stage, and yet quite a special part of the film set-up, are the so-called comedy "gag men." These men are usually trained and successful authors of stories or plays, but they have minds particularly attuned to the comic.
Comedy scenes are very much a matter of timing and humor values. Comedy stories are usually assembled as a rough skeleton; no attempt is made to get more than basic humor into the original continuity. When the scene actually starts on the set, one or more "gag men" sit with the directors and the Marx Brothers, the Ritz Brothers, Herman Bing, Hugh Herbert, Harold Lloyd, Joe Brown, or any other of the accepted comedians of the time. With properties and settings before the group, the gag men begin to suggest the throwing of this, the moving of that, a seemingly unpremeditated fall, a substitute or funnier line of dialogue.
Gag men are strange individuals who prefer to be called "comedy constructionists." It has been said that writers are seldom born, but are almost always made from sheer hard work. But surely gag men are born. The extreme sensitivity of the late Al Boasberg to comedy seemed innate. It is a quality seldom acquired. Certainly no school in the world could teach a person to be a "comedy constructionist."
Screen comedies are so dependent on separate funny sequences joined together to make a coherent whole,
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