Michael Anthony Steele: Kids Screenwriter, Novelizationist, Ad Man

“It’s different for each age group. For example, one of the original Barney writers, Steve White, had a good piece of advice for writing for preschool kids and kids in general. He said, you can use all the vaudeville pratfalls and the oldest joke in the book on these kids because they’ve never seen it before, it’s brand new to them and it’s really funny to them. Stuff that we’d think was corny, and oh my gosh, that’s such an old joke or that’s such a bad joke, kids love it.”

Source: The Awl
Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,994 words)
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