FILM TV 133AIntermediate Television Writing Variety/Sketch Comedy
Film and Television · 8 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of writing for sketch, talk, and other hybrid comedic television shows. Review of various types of parody including monologues, commercial parodies, slice-of-life comedy, character-driven comedy, physical comedy, comedy of absurd, and political and topical satire. Students write one comedy sketch and portfolio of monologue jokes. Offered in summer only.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 131.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 133A
- FILM TV 131Introduction to Television Writing
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.