hey, cool job! ep 25 / joel kim booster

49:58: "well, when you learn, uh - when you go to theatre school you learn play analysis and it's all about okay, so you have stasis, this is the world as it exists. and then there's an inciting incident, something that fucks up the world, okay you know that and then there's rising actions that lead all the way up to a climax - which... the inciting incident introduces a dramatic question, so the dramatic question of "kate and sam are breaking up" would be will they get back together or will they die? and then the rising action sort of leads up to that climax that answers the question that's asked by the inciting incident and then you have a denouement that sort of establishes a new stasis, a new sort of world that is not being disturbed. and that is the driving force between everything that i write, even a half-hour comedy. everything has to have that or it's sort of what's the point?" 50:50