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Joe Toplyn is an Emmy-winning writer/producer, the inventor of the AI-powered joke writer Witscript, and the author of "Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV."
- About
Our first tech product exploits my experience in comedy and...
- Blog
Click below for Joe’s articles on various topics. Late-Night...
- Galleries
Joe Toplyn on How to Pick a Good News Item for Writing...
- Events
Joe Toplyn says: July 22, 2020 at 9:37 am Thanks for asking...
- Media Page
Joe Toplyn [TOP-lin] has written and produced comedy/talk...
- Contact
Contact Joe Toplyn through his company: Twenty Lane Media,...
- Late Night with David Letterman
I was on the Late Night writing staff from September 1983...
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Right before I joined The Tonight Show as co-head writer I...
- Monk
I freelanced a script for Monk in its second season and...
- Writing Tips Archives
Posted on November 11, 2014 by Joe Toplyn Say you want to...
- About
Our first tech product exploits my experience in comedy and also engineering. It’s Witscript (U.S. Patent Nos. 10,642,939; 10,878,817; and 11,080,485), the first artificial intelligence to ad-lib real jokes. I have two wonderful sons and live in Westchester County, New York, with my amazing wife.
I'm the inventor of Witscript, a generative AI system for improvising original jokes. Witscript (U.S. Patent Nos. 10,642,939; 10,878,817; and 11,080,485) is a hybrid AI system that utilizes both...
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- Twenty Lane Media, LLC
- The Roxbury Latin School
Joe Toplyn is a writer and producer, known for Monk (2002), Late Show with David Letterman (1993) and In Living Color (1990).
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How to Write a Joke. Posted on July 15, 2014 by Joe Toplyn. There are formulas for writing jokes. Experienced joke writers go through a systematic process to turn something like a news item into a sentence or two that will make people laugh. You may have heard that “Writing is rewriting.”.
I interviewed comedy writer Joe Toplyn this week. Joe was a writer for, Late Night with David Letterman, In Living Color, The Chevy Chase Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show...
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Twenty Lane Media is the publisher of the book Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV. In it, Joe Toplyn reveals his proven methods of writing jokes and other short-form comedy. Joe’s techniques, tools and rules have empowered thousands of people to create their own comedy.
