American - Writer | September 14, 1954 -
I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.
Michael Patrick King
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Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?
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With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.
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It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'
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'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
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Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
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I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.
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I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
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Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
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Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
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My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
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There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.
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