Download or read book Summary of John Vorhaus s The Comic Toolbox written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-10T22:59:00Z with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The fundamental rule of humor is that it’s not about you. When people make fun of you, they’re not laughing at you. They’re laughing with you. That’s right. When someone makes a joke at your expense, it’s always someone else who’s getting the last laugh. It’s never you. It was a moment that taught me a lot about life and about comedy. And, just possibly, about love. -> The fundamental rule of humor is that it’s not about you. When people make fun of you, they’re not laughing at you; they’re laughing with you. It’s always someone else who’s getting the last laugh. #2 The fundamental rule of humor is that it’s not about you. When people make fun of you, it’s not about hurting you, it’s about laughing with you. #3 The fundamental rule of humor is that it’s not about you. When people make fun of you, they’re not laughing at you; they’re laughing with you. It’s always someone else who’s getting the last laugh. #4 The fundamental rule of humor is that it’s not about you. When people make fun of you, they’re not laughing at you; they’re laughing with you. It’s always someone else who’s getting the last laugh.
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 Killer Poker written by John Vorhaus and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of gambling books that will give readers a warrior approach to poker, leading journalist and poker columnist John Vorhaus begins by changing a player's state of mind, from a passive reactive player to a strong, proactive player, and then shows him or her how to dominate the game and crush opponents. Giving players the psychic edge and practical tools to play like an expert, as well as teaching them how to spot the weaknesses and strengths of other players, and how to use them to their own advantage, this book offers the attitude needed to win the game.
Download or read book Comedy Writing 4 Life written by John Vorhaus and published by Bafflegab Books. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all of John Vorhaus's books on writing (The Comic Toolbox, Creativity Rules; that list goes on), Comedy Writing 4 Life makes the creative process easy, fun and accessible to absolutely everyone. Whether you're into stand-up, sketch or improv, situation comedies or comic screenplays, cartoons, video, blogging, whatever, you're going to find so much value in this slim volume that your head will literally explode. Literally. Pieces of it will be found for miles around. You'll learn the fundamental secret of comedy (no secret; comedy is cruelty), how to use filters to create comic characters, simple storytelling shortcuts, and just tons more. With pithy advice like, "Fail big!" and plenty of entertaining exercises that you can do as you go, CW4L presents a simple, effective guide to success in comedy writing and beyond. If you're serious about being frivolous, this little book will change your comedy writing for life.
Download or read book The Texas Twist written by John Vorhaus and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-class con artist Radar Hoverlander is back, with his crew in tow—this time in Austin. The snuke is on!
Download or read book Decide to Play Great Poker written by Annie Duke and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author.
Download or read book Killer Poker Shorthanded written by John Vorhaus and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many poker games eventually become shorthanded, and the pros know that shorthanded games give prepared players the opportunity to quickly win big while opponents make crucial, costly and easily exploitable mistakes. Whether playing online or sizing up the survivors over a Vegas poker game, renowned poker professionals John Vorhaus and Tony Guerrera go beyond the maths and theory, and into the realm of real profit, providing all the inside tips and unique talents needed for successful shorthanded play.
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 Comedy Writing Secrets written by Melvin Helitzer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to writing, selling and performing all types of comedy. Includes comments, advice, gags and routines from top comics.
Download or read book A Million Random Words written by John Vorhaus and published by Bafflegab Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 2529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you do with a million random words? Crikey, what can’t you do? Create “exquisite corpse” poetry. Seed your creativity by using some random number of random words as the basis for your next short story. Invent delightful party games. Tell fortunes. Give as a gift to your wise-ass Scrabble friends. Or just read aloud and laugh yourself stupid. The possibilities are endless (well, no, actually, they end at a million) when you buy and own your own copy of A Million Random Words. With this ebook on your smart phone or dumb phone or device, you’re never more than a tap away from an astounding new collection of uniquely assembled words and phrases. Can you say, “Waving plateglass forename salp, duckwalked supertonic guilty librettists?” You couldn’t before, but now you can! A Million Random Words was created using a proprietary algorithm and has been meticulously copy-edited and vetted by the finest linguistic scholars. Attractively priced at just $4.99 – less than $0.000005 per word – it offers a better cost-to-word than any book in the history of print, so order your copy today. The sooner you do, the sooner you can say, “Cathartic thrill columbic superwives pushrods” with the full courage of your conviction.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Comedy Writing written by James Mendrinos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've always known writing comedy was about more than just being funny. But how do you create a joke and work it into a script or a stand-up routine? Comedian, writer, and teacher Jim Mendrinos has the answers. In The Complete Idiot s Guide to Comedy Writing, Mendrinos gives readers the principles he teaches in his popular courses, from understanding what funny is and how to find it, to how to actually construct comedy. Working through the basic constructions and forms including premises, points of view, and twists, he shows the variations of written, verbal, and physical comedy. With useful exercises, Mendrinos helps writers refine their writing, appeal to their audience, and even break writer's block by learning techniques for brainstorming, free association, lists, and finding infinite points of view.
Download or read book how to live life written by John Vorhaus and published by Bafflegab Books. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a problem -- a problem you can solve! All you need are some simple, insightful ways of looking at yourself and your world, plus frank, straightforward tools for developing your philosophy, addressing your feelings and clarifying your goals. And they’re all here for you – in abundance – in John Vorhaus’s down-to-earth guide to lofty concerns, How to Live Life. Using the plain-spoken, exercise-driven approach of his many successful writing books, How to Live Life offers no magic solutions, just practical strategies for advancing your self-awareness, acquiring self-acceptance and closing the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be. If spiritual matters matter to you, if you want to make your life rise, and if you wish to gain a better grasp of the questions that confront us all, this little book will have a great big impact on you.
Download or read book Serious Guide to Joke Writing written by Sally Holloway and published by Book Shaker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive joke writing masterclass has been devised for beginners and experienced joke writers alike. The techniques you will learn can be used again and again to write funny and original material. You hold in your hands the key to unlocking your inner comedy genius.
Download or read book Lucy in the Sky written by John Vorhaus and published by John Vorhaus. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age tale set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1969, Lucy in the Sky lightly touches on such weighty issues as the meaning of life, the purpose of art and the existence of God. For those interested in answers to The Big Questions or just keen to revisit a simpler time, Lucy in the Sky promises a fun and compelling trip - and that's trip in every sense of the word. Gene Steen is an earnest, intelligent, truth-seeking teen stuck in the cultural wasteland of his suburban home. He wants to be a hippie in the worst way, but hippies are scarce on the ground in the forlorn Midwest of Gene's 15th year. Then, propitiously on the Summer Solstice, his life is turned upside down by the arrival of his lively, lovely, long-lost cousin Lucy. She's hip beyond Gene's wildest dreams and immediately takes him under her wing. Lucy teaches Gene that being a hippie isn't about love beads and peace signs, but about the choices you make and the stands you take. Yet for all her airy insights into religion, philosophy and "the isness of it all," Lucy harbors dark secrets - secrets that will soon put her on the run, with Gene by her side.Lucy in the Sky resonates of such classics as Summer of '42 and Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and invites the reader into a richly detailed vision of the '60s, as realized by Vorhaus's sure-handed prose and authentic sense of place and time. With frank talk about sex and drugs, Vorhaus pulls no punches about the realities of the era, yet delivers an uplifting message about personal power and the path to enlightenment. A rewarding read for young seekers and old geezers alike.
Download or read book The Cat Who Read the Mail written by Elinor Donahue and published by Xlibris Corp. This book was released on 2005-12-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cat Who Read the Mail" sixteen amazing stories about our mysterious bond with animals Can a dog understand the grief and loss of 9/11? Can a cat expose a cheating husband? Can a research dog let his rescuer know he wants to be called 'Rexy"? Absolutely! And here are the stories to prove it. These are accounts of extraordinary interactions between people and pets. Stories that surprise, perplex and move us. But The Cat Who Read the Mail is not simply another collection of 'amazing" animal stories. Instead, animal writer and columnist Elinor Donahue explores the interaction between people and pets when it moves beyond amazing and becomes inexplicable, mysterious, profound. She's interviewed dozens of ordinary people who have anything but ordinary stories to tell. Here, told in a lively, journalistic style, are the most compelling encounters with the unexpected through an animal. Samson the cat began chewing and ripping the mail - selecting only the mail addressed to the husband of the house. He'd then deposit the remains at the front door where the wife would see it when she came home. Samson was on to something. Annie, the 12-pound therapy dog at Ground Zero, gathered the gazes of a circle of bereaved men a few days after 9/11 - whereupon each of them spilled out, one by one, whom they lost there. 'My mother." 'My brother." 'My sister." When Malibu the dog died, her housemate cat, Whip, watched in fascination -- and the next day took on Malibu's daily habits, including opening the kitchen cabinets to forage for dog treats. While each story in this entertaining and fast-reading book stands on its own, the narratives gather momentum as acollection, suggesting there is more mystery and meaning here than our limited vantage can account for. However, Donahue does not attempt to explain or interpret. She simply showcases these special pets and the ordinary people who have glimpsed the extraordinary because of them. The Cat Who Read the Mail offers 16 stories that, in quick and glancing style, suggest that animals are in on the play of the universe in ways beyond our imagining. Still, each episode is real and occurred in the ordinary life of a grounded human being. The people in these stories never expected or sought the unexplainable event they experienced. Donahue has interviewed each of these individuals in depth, selecting the most compelling stories. Like Joel, the optometrist who dealt only in rational fact. He wasn't expecting that an eerie howl from the cat would precede the apparition of Baxter, his recently deceased dog. And a renowned dog trainer found that indeed it matters what you call your dog. When it hears the name it really wants, like 'Jazz," the animal will respond far more readily than when the moniker is a misfit, like 'Daisy." Though not sentimental heart warmers, these are stories for the good. That is their power. These occurrences can't be explained-and because of that they make their way into the crevices in our thinking. They take us to the moment of inswept breath-the aha! that catches us unaware. And they're fun to read!
Download or read book Zen and the Art of Stand Up Comedy written by Jay Sankey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to improve and perfect your work. Much more than a how-to manual Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy is the most detailed and comprehensive book on the subject to date.
Download or read book The State of the Global Education Crisis written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The global disruption to education caused by the COVD-19 pandemic is without parallel and the effects on learning are severe. The crisis brought education systems across the world to a halt, with school closures affecting more than 1.6 billion learners. While nearly every country in the world offered remote learning opportunities for students, the quality and reach of such initiatives varied greatly and were at best partial substitutes for in-person learning. Now, 21 months later, schools remain closed for millions of children and youth, and millions more are at risk of never returning to education. Evidence of the detrimental impacts of school closures on children's learning offer a harrowing reality: learning losses are substantial, with the most marginalized children and youth often disproportionately affected. Countries have an opportunity to accelerate learning recovery and make schools more efficient, equitable, and resilient by building on investments made and lessons learned during the crisis. Now is the time to shift from crisis to recovery - and beyond recovery, to resilient and transformative education systems that truly deliver learning and well-being for all children and youth."--The World Bank website.
