Roger Nygard - Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor’s Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies
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Cut to the Monkey is the story of a filmmakers journey through Hollywoodrevealing the techniques behind how the experts find the funny in any projectby a filmmaker who has worked with some of the funniest people in the business and has edited Emmy-nominated episodes from series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, and Who Is America?
Nobody knows who first said, Dying is easy, comedy is hard. But almost everyone in the film business agrees its true. Roger Nygard shares his anecdotal experiences in television, features, and documentaries as a filmmaker and editorstruggles and successes any filmmaker can identify with. Nygard also includes tips for Hollywood professionals and fans alike on how to successfully navigate the business of being funny.
Along with a major focus on film editing, the author shares filmmaking stories that will leave readers feeling inspired and better prepared to deal with their own struggles. The book also features contributions about writing, creating, and editing comedy from some of the biggest names in the comedy business, including Judd Apatow (Girls, The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Alec Berg (Silicon Valley, Barry), Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Who Is America?), Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger, Black or White), Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep), David Mandel (Veep, The White House Plumbers), Jeff Schaffer (The League, Dave), Krista Vernoff (Shameless, Greys Anatomy), and others.
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Roger Nygard is well known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the universe. Nygards other award-winning films include the car-salesman cult-film Suckers, a profile of UFO fanatics called Six Days in Roswell, and The Nature of Existence, which investigates the worlds philosophies, religions, and belief systems. His next documentary and companion book covered an even more challenging subject than existence itself, The Truth About Marriage. Nygard has also directed television series such as The Office and The Bernie Mac Show. His work as a film editor includes Greys Anatomy, The League, The Comedy Store, The White House Plumbers, and Emmy-nominated episodes of Who Is America? and Veep, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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