John Vorhaus

John Vorhaus is best known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even ifr You're Not. This seminal book on writing comedy for television and film is now in its third printing, and continues to be a definitive source of information and inspiration for writers from Santa Monica to Scandinavia.

Vorhaus' television writing credits include Married... with Children, Head of the Class, The Sentinel, The Flash and more. He is also a screenwriter, and his charity scam comedy Save Angel Hope is slated for 2009 release.

An international consultant in television and film script development, Vorhaus has worked for television networks, film schools, production companies and film funding bodies in 24 countries on four continents. His most recent work is the situation comedy Nice Views, currently in its second season ofrnproduction in Switzerland. He has traveled regularly to Nicaragua, where hernhelped build a social-action drama designed to teach the young people ofr Nicaragua to "think for themselves and practice safe sex."

Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He has consulted to Walt Disney Feature Animation and taught at such institutions as Northweste University, the American Film Institute and ther Writers Program of the UCLA Extension. A television analyst for poker broadcasts on Fox Sports Net, he is the author ofrna dozen books, including Creativityr Rules! A Writer's Workbook,the Killer Poker series, and the poker mystery Under the Gun.