Submission Samples from the Comedy Genre

Title: The Amazing Dave

Logline: A Farrelly-esque comedy about an ordinary man who has to deal with the ups & downs of a not just a relationship, but one with a superheroin.

Synopsis: Dave is an ordinary guy who loves to play pool enjoys the simple life. But when he saves a girl from being attacked, Dave gets a new admire in her beautiful sister Amanda. As Dave & Amanda's relationship grows stronger, he begins to notice that there is more to Amanda than meets the eye including her abilities to open jars of spaghetti sauce at will, move furniture for vacuuming, beat traffic around Manhattan, and her prowess in the bedroom. When Dave learns that Amanda is actually Nexa, one of the strongest superheroes in the world, he must come to terms with the fact he has no ordinary girlfriend. Not only that, but Dave must also deal with Amanda's stalker, superhero ex-boyfriend who just can't seem to let go. How will Dave deal with all of his issues? Perhaps he can get help in a support group for those with "super-significant others."

Title: Remember Fern

Logline: What starts out as Cross Gramaldi, an Oscar winning actor, helping Jade Westin out of one of her con-jobs gone bad turns into two strangers trying to put on a facade for his family and the paparrzi.

Synopsis: Jade Westin takes the thick stack of one hundred dollar bills and slides them into her purse. She glances over the half dressed man in the bed as she exits the hotel suite. Jade Westin, 28, is a free spirit with checkered past. She's always taken care of herself and has had to fight and scheme for everything she has gotten with the occasional con job not out of the question. Jade had met her match in a Las Vegas when she is caught trying to out wise a wise guy. Through a twist of fate she ends up face to face with Oscar Award winning actor and Holywood's golden boy Cross Gramaldi who helps her escape the hotel. While intrigued by the firey stranger, Cross knows she's trouble but can't resist one more conversation when they end up on the same flight. With the slip of Jade's tongue and a stranger who turns out to be Cross's mother, the two are stuck together for the next four days. Jade is swept into the world of the rich and famous and into the hearts of Cross's family.

Title: IRWIN GODBOLT

Logline: When a psychiatrist faces the most challenging patient of her life and tells him he is not the center of the universe, she is shocked to learn his true identity.

Synopsis: God, incarcerated as "Irwin Godbolt," seeks the help of Sylvia, a down-on-her-luck psychiatrist, to deal with his endless workload and total exhaustion. Sylvia and Irwin work together while comparing notes on their struggles with difficult humans, intractable problems and feelings of guilt and inadequacy. Their symbiotic relationship ultimately helps Sylvia cope with her own life's experiences as she guides Irwin in regaining the strength to face the next billion years as the universe's "Executive Producer." My character-driven comedy's subtle humor is interestingly intertwined with wackiness and absurdity. It pokes fun at the field of psychiatry and also pushes family dysfunction to the limit. This is a timely, laugh-out-loud comedy that raises important issues such as religion, war and mental illness, while holding the unusual premise of God needing a shrink. WGAw Reg. #1698054

Title: Diary of A Madman

Logline: Dave Dwyer keeps a steady diary of all his indiscretions while living a life with no rules, only to fall in love in the end.

Synopsis: Dave Dwyer loves Ozzy Osbourne, girls, his friends and lives life by the seat of his pants with absolutely no rules. Seemingly successful, working in software sales, he's constantly on the run from love. Only Dave's diary holds the secrets behind his mind...until he visits a frail psychiatrist for help. Slowly his life begins to unravel and horror of horrors, return to normalcy. He blames a past flame for his odd behavior. He moves on from his distressed past to fall in love with a beautiful gal he had met early on. They eventually marry. (This was written with a sequel in mind after they are married - tentatively titled: Diary of A Madman - The Married Life)

Title: Business As Usual, a dark comedy

Logline: A hardworking woman dodges financial ruin while fighting to win a promotion. But the boss is an ass, the competition's a bitch-and everyone who gets the job, winds up dead.

Synopsis: Diane Blanchard remortgaged her house to pay her son's medical bills and send him to college. Now she's upside-down, stalked by the bank and the repo-man. Her only way out: win a promotion opened up by the death of her company's vice president. But the competition's a killer-and when Diane doesn't get the job, the woman who does, dies. More than once. As the list of candidates dwindles, the number of suspects narrows. That's bad news for Diane's homicide-detective boyfriend, who's investigating the case. And his "Uncle Rocky," a Mob boss with a soft spot for Diane. Undeterred by an apparent attempt on her life, Diane presses on in the face of heartless creditors, a lecherous boss-and someone who seems to want this job bad enough to kill for it...

Title: Bullet Holes And Bear Guts

Logline: Fulfilling a dead friend's dream is a lot harder when you're being perused by an eccentric, gay mob boss.

Synopsis: After his friend's death in a mysterious house fire, pizza delivery man, Guy Fisher comes into a lump sum of money. Determined to fulfill his dead friend's dream, he sets out for Mexico only to find that the original owner of the money, Bruno Bracco, the eccentric, gay mob boss of the mid-west, wants it back and aims to pursue Guy at all costs, leaving him in a situation of meeting new people that will change the course of his life forever.

Title: The Foosball Kid

Logline: A klutzy middle-aged volunteer fireman with a boring day job still lives at home with his mother while trying to recapture his youth by playing in Foosball competitions.

Synopsis: America's infamous baby boomers have a dark side and this story taps into this virtually unnoticed population. Due to the high cost of living, there are a growing number of people who never left their parent's home. Based on a true story, our main character Steven Parelli lives at home with his mom at age forty because he doesn't make enough money to afford his own place. He joined the local volunteer fire department to add more spice to his life however due to his klutzy ways, the other firemen do not permit him to do any dangerous tasks. Steven stumbles onto his one true skill, which is playing and winning foosball games, when he runs into Leo, a talent agent, who helps Steven capitalize on his foosball skills. This story is our first and we believe it is extremely funny and people will be able to relate Steven and/or his friends to someone they actually know. It is a great homage to all those parents who are stuck with middle-aged kids that never left home. WGA:123863.

Title: A Dog's Life

Logline: Don't tell the dog owners, but the winner of the Happy Valley Ugly Mutt contest will turn human for a day.

Synopsis: Poor Dinky wins first prize in the Happy Valley Ugly Mutt contest. Later, as his owners party downstairs, an angel appears and agrees to make him human for 24 hours. Then, he has one wish. He can wish for anything. Or, he can wish to become a dog again. Dinky jumps at the chance. Dinky-as-human runs downstairs and says hi to the stunned party guests. He is tossed in jail. Dinky yearns to be an ugly dog again. But the angel gave him 24 "dog hours", a week of human time! His court appointed psychiatrist has Dinky put into the dog pound as a form of therapy, thinking that he will be shocked to his senses if he has to live with real dogs. The pound is like a real prison, with armed guards, inmate gangs, and an execution chamber for any dog that lasts a week without being adopted. In prison, Dinky falls in love with an ugly girl dog, Penny. He uses his wish to save Penny from execution, and now must stay human for life. Or so he thinks. But angels can do anything.

Title: Honor Role

Logline: Three friends attempt make ends meet by exploiting the wealthy students at a prestigious private school with a homework for hire scheme, but like most things in their lives, it doesn't go as planned.

Synopsis: Fighting hard to stave off adulthood, poverty and sober judgment, three twenty-something buddies, with fleeting hopes of becoming screenwriters, hatch a plan to meet the academic needs of rich and lazy prep schoolers. Brett is a teacher at a prestigious and celebrity laden private school. Ryan is newly unemployed following a disastrous stint in a corporate cubicle farm. Andrew has just graduated from law school...graduated that is from academic probation to expulsion. Looking for a quick infusion of cash and excitement, they devise a plan to use Brett's position to mine the wealth and sloth at his school. Despite a series of mis-steps, the plan begins to flourish. Everything is on the up and up until an alcohol impaired decision regarding quality control leads to the unraveling of the scheme. Add to the mix, budding relationships, a woeful break up, and a parent of a student "customer" who's a right wing, law and order TV commentator and the stage is set for a complicated reckoning.

Title: Some People Are Just Like That

Logline: A group of small town students at a Historically Black College learn life lessons from the peculiar, sometimes hilarious customers that come into the urban grocery store where they work part time.

Synopsis: A group of students are desparately in need of money to go home for the holidays, and begin working at the local grocery store against the wishes of their parents. The parents know only too well about the ongoing unfriendly attitude of the local residents against "college people." The students themselves have come from different backgrounds and have had little interaction with each other until they start working with Mr. Carter; a long time graduate of the college; at his grocery store. They then form an unlikely friendship, and learn life lessons from peculiar and humorous shoppers who come into the store. Mr. Carter who takes on the role as a somewhat father figure, helps them understand how the neighborhood has become so diversified. From time to time little reminders of resentment toward the students is displayed. At the end, a near death experience changes the hearts of the towns people and the students as well.