What My Dad Did
Cotton, Chris
What My Dad Did: My Theory of Joke Writing" is a memoir chronicling the journey of Chris Cotton through the ranks of professional comedy while also telling the story of his father, Henry S. Cotton Jr., a public school teacher raising a family and rising from poverty.
The book uses a beat sheet format to tell the "Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How" to draw a correlation between a father and son and two different moments in time. The inspi...