Download or read book Get More Laughs from Your Laughs written by Robert W Klamm and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get More Laughs From Your Laughs is worth more than all of the 30 other comedy books in my library. Great innovations, all very usable and adaptable!"-Barron Stringfellow "Your little book contains more practical information than the excellent books I already have by Eastman and Vorhaus. Thanks!"-Bill Ligon "I was a basket case when it came to doing comedy, until I discovered these techniques and put them together in Get More Laughs From Your Laughs."-R W Klamm World-famous comedy magician, Aldo Columbini says: "Every topic has been analyzed and explained. You'll find comedy contradiction, exaggeration, rules of physical action, punch-line sentence structure, dual reality, innocence and believability, timing and the pause, how to build your own comedy characterization, plus comic devices with funny examples. You'll have fun with the game-like exercises included with each chapter." Whether you become a comic star or not, humor can help you light the darkest corners of your life, heal the spirit, makes friends of enemies, and clear out the cobwebs that clutter. Get More Laughs From Your Laughs is fun to read, fun to use. You'll keep it as a reference manual. It is a gem that even professionals will treasure.
Download or read book Crying Laughing written by Lance Rubin and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Download or read book Lunch Box Laughs written by Tony Nappa and published by Standard Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will remind children that laughter is a gift from God. It is packed with colorful tear-out notes parents can pack in lunch boxes or tuck in backpacks to brighten their child's day.
Download or read book Get Em Laughing written by E. Gene Davis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXAMPLES: Why did Mrs. Smokey the Bear divorce Smokey the Bear? Because every time she got hot, he would beat her with a shovel. Josh, age 4, on seeing a couple kissing: He's trying to steal her chewing gum. Sign: For Sale - Parachute. Only used once. Small stain On a virgin's tombstone: Returned To Sender Unopened What do you want on your tombstone? My 9-year-old grandson Trevor said, Pepperoni, cheese and mushrooms. Georgia Tech School Rule: How do you get a University of Georgia cheerleader into your dorm room? Just grease her hips and push. It's been so long since I made love, I can't remember who gets tied up. -Joan Rivers The towels were so thick there, I could hardly close my suitcase. -Yogi Berra She: You'd better go. My husband just drove up. He: Where's the back door? She: We don't have one. He: Where would you like one? These are some of the thousands of jokes, one-liners and quotes on just about any subject, crammed into this book. If you yearn for additional sparkle and zest in your presentations, you have come to the right place. This book is primarily a Humor Resource with a massive reservoir of clever and useable Illustrations Haven't we all prepared for a presentation hoping for a Home Run? Sure we have. When we speak, we expect the ball to go right over the fence. But often. we have come up dry. And surely you remember your own failed experience(s). Just when you wanted to go into your Home Run Trot, you realized, you didn't quite get all of the ball. The problem? You had no time to look for hilarious and profound material. Wouldn't it have been invaluable to have a vast quality collection right at your fingertips? Well now you do. Get 'Em Laughing... and Bring the house down!
Download or read book Laughter written by Robert R. Provine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
Download or read book Asimov Laughs Again written by Isaac Asimov and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than 700 of Isaac Asimov's favorite jokes, cleverest limericks and funniest stories.
Download or read book Help I m Laughing and I Can t Get Up written by Liz Curtis Higgs and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If They re Laughing They Just Might Be Listening written by Cheryl Miller Thurston and published by Prufrock Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and fun-to-read, this book includes 29 tips for tapping into the power of humor, as well as many examples of materials that encourage laughter and learning.
Download or read book I Want to Laugh written by Derrick Ellis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recommended daily dose of laughter is 15 minutes a day. I WANT TO LAUGH gives you the health benefits of laughter. For example, laughter lowers Blood Pressure, promotes better sleep, increases natural killer cells (to attack cancers and tumors), improves respiration, and much much more. In addition, there are hundreds and hundreds of jokes, quips, and quotations for almost every occasion. That's right this book will provide the quotes and jokes you need to get your day or night going with excitement. After reading only a few pages, readers will find themselves emailing these side-splitting jokes to friends, family members, and co-workers.
Download or read book The Laughing Guide to a Better Life written by Isaac Prilleltensky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motto of this book is smarter through laughter. If you can laugh about it, you can probably change it. The authors use a heavy dose of humor (the laughing side), and a healthy measure of science (the learning side) to help you improve yourself, your relationships, and your surroundings. The book introduces the “I CAN model,” which stands for Interactions, Context, Awareness, and Next steps. Interactions are powerful determinants of health and happiness. There are two skills that can make our interactions healthier: the ability to connect and the capacity to communicate. Context is also a powerful but often neglected driver of change. The contexts of our lives consist of people, places, and things. To leverage context to our advantage we need to master the art of reading cues and changing cues in the environment. Awareness is the next driver of change. Regardless of where you are in the process of change, there is always a next step to strengthen your change, maintain your gains, and keep thriving. To do that, you need to make a plan, and you need to make it stick. The book will teach you how to use these drivers of change to flourish and thrive.
Download or read book The Comic Toolbox written by John Vorhaus and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward, often humorous workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem-solving. In it, veteran Hollywood comedy writer John Vorhaus offers his tools of the trade to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea. Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain (the essence of the comic situation), that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy (kill the ferocious editor within and rich, useful comic ideas will flow), and much more.
Download or read book Russian Optimism written by Ben Rosenfeld and published by Bigbencomedy. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Optimism: Dark Nursery Rhymes To Cheer You Right Up is an illustrated coffee table book of thirty of Russia's most horrifically hysterical nursery rhymes translated for an English speaking audience. Each rhyme is 2-4 lines, with an innocent title and a horrible ending. Each rhyme is accompanied by a brightly colored yet twisted illustration of the scenario described to add humor. Each two-page layout has the illustration on one side, and the title of the rhyme, the English text, the Russian text and the Russian transliteration (using English letters) on the other. For example, The Woods: "A little boy found a machine gun. Nothing lives in the woods anymore." The rhymes are grouped in seven ironically titled chapters: Moral Messages, Parenting Pointers, Classic Cooking, Aquatic Adventures, Close Calls, Cheery Children and Explosive Endings.
Download or read book Humor Seriously written by Jennifer Aaker and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Anyone—even you!—can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Don’t miss the authors’ TED Talk, “Why great leaders take humor seriously,” online now. “The ultimate guide to using the magical power of funny as a tool for leadership and a force for good.”—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval in both our personal and professional lives. So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that trust, human connection, and mental well-being are all on the decline. This may seem like no laughing matter. Yet, the research shows that humor and laughter are among the most valuable tools we have at our disposal for strengthening bonds and relationships, diffusing stress and tension, boosting resilience, and performing when the stakes are high. That’s why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds infuse more humor and levity into their work and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, world-class comedians, and inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and—more important—how you can use more of it, better. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and simple ways to identify and leverage your unique humor style. They show how to use humor to rebuild vital connections; appear more confident, competent, and authentic at work; and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” If Dwight David Eisenhower, the second least naturally funny president (after Franklin Pierce), thought humor was necessary to win wars, build highways, and warn against the military-industrial complex, then you might consider learning it too.
Download or read book Humor as Survival Training for a Stressed Out World written by Paul McGhee and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evidence is now in! Humor and laughter are good medicine. The companion to this book, Humor: The Lighter Path to Resilience and Health (2010, also published by AuthorHouse) discusses the exciting new research supporting the long-held claim that laughter is the best medicine. Humor as Survival Training for a Stressed-Out Worldshows how to get these benefits of humor into your own life. It contains the first-ever humor skills training program that has evidence from multiple countries documenting its effectiveness in boosting your sense of humor and learning to use humor to cope with the stress in your life. No other program for improving your sense of humor can make this claim. The basic idea is to build key foundation humor skills on your good dayswhen youre in a good mood. While strengthening one habit/skill at a time, you dont extend these skills to daily stressors until the habits are well developed (otherwise, your sense of humor abandons you when youre under stress). The 7 Humor Habit Program first builds the habit of becoming a more playful person in general (humor is a form of mental play), and then focuses onverbal humor skills, finding humor in everyday life, laughing at yourself and other key humor skills. Studies in the USA, Switzerland, Australia and Germany have confirmed the effectiveness of this program in boosting your sense of humor. Evidence also shows that it improves your daily mood, boosts optimism and improves your ability to cope with stress. There is even evidence that the 7 Humor Habits Program is an effective tool in reducing clinical depression and anxiety. It has been shown to be effective for all ages, from college students to seniors in their eighties. So its never too late to improve your own sense of humor.
Download or read book Laughing a Psychology of Humor written by Norman Norwood Holland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waddle Lot of Laughs Joke Book written by Rebecca McCarthy and published by Ladybird Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to giggle when you share these silly jokes with your buddies! What's black and white and goes around and around? A penguin in a revolving door! How does a penguin build a house? Igloos it together. What kind of bird can write underwater? A ballpoint penguin.
Download or read book How to Make People Laugh written by Christopher Kingler and published by . This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to be appreciated by the people around you? What if I told you that with just a few lines you could impress whoever you want? Have you ever noticed that the people you love the most are the people who make you laugh? Laughter, an involuntary contagious reaction, is a way to connect with others and convey information about social situations. Laughter can relieve feelings of discomfort, anger or sadness and has the power to make you feel close to others. Laughing is a reaction that involves the brain, usually the instinctive part in the case of silly and/or simple jokes and other parts of the brain in the case of more sophisticated and/or intellectual jokes. Some people are fun by nature, but being fun is also a set of skills that can be learned. Here's what you'll learn in this fun guide: - How to understand others through the science of laughter. - Tips for enhancing your image to make a memorable impression. - The art of self-irony to displace anyone. - The anatomy of a joke. - Examples of practical jokes and exercises. - Learn to post videos, photos and viral posts on the internet. - Emergency manoeuvres if you don't like your jokes. By using the techniques provided in this manual you will be exceptionally entertaining without ever getting taken for a clown or being considered an idiot. Unlike other publications, this book is not aimed at experienced actors or comedians. Anyone can use it, and it doesn't read like a university course. The examples and exercises provided can be put into practice right away! You will be more successful if you know how to make people laugh. When you finish reading this book, which is actually a crash course, the "diploma" you will receive will not be a scroll with your name on it, but invaluable knowledge and tools on the science of laughter, helping you to be a great person to be with; a person who expresses joy and confidence. What are you waiting for?
