For years, Steve Kaplan has been the industry's most sought-after expert on comedy. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities Steve created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan's Punch Line Theatre. Steve has consulted with Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Aardman Animation, HBO and others, and has taught his seminar in LA, New York, London, Paris, Kiev, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. In this segment Steve discusses his book The Hidden Tools of Comedy, and his upcoming book, The Comic Hero’s Journey, as well as providing more information about his live workshops and script consulting services. For more information on Steve Kaplan can be found on Twitter: Twitter: @skcomedy, Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/KaplanComedy/ or oh his website at: www.KaplanComedy.com. For more information on Laura you can go to her website www.laurapowers.net and you can find her on facebook and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers.