Download or read book Summary of Scott Dikkers s How to Write Funny written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-21T22:59:00Z with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are not many great humor writers in the world. It is one of the most difficult and challenging of all the literary crafts. To write humor that is funny, you must first find a good joke, then re-tell it in your own words. #2 To write humor, you must first understand what makes people laugh. There are many theories as to why people laugh, and they all provide some insight into what makes people laugh. But writing humor requires no funny performer or engaging personality. #3 The tools of the humor writer are not in a physical toolbox. They’re locked away in the subconscious mind of the user. They’re tools of knowledge. The professional comedy writer knows how to write humor that the majority of people will find funny, in a reliable and repeatable way. #4 Comedy writing is a craft that can be learned and mastered. It doesn’t take decades of practice, and it doesn’t have to be isolating or frustrating. The steps that take place in a split second are laid out in the form of a clear blueprint that anyone can learn and practice.
Download or read book How To Write Funny written by Scott Dikkers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive comedy-writing handbook from one of the genre's most celebrated writers, this easy-to-follow guide lays out a clear system for creating humor that gets big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn...* the three sure-fire ways to generate material* the 11 kinds of jokes and how to tell them* the secret to permanently overcoming writer's block* and many more tips, tricks and techniques
Download or read book Summary of Scott Dikkers s How to Write Funny written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Scott Dikkers's How to Write Funny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Write Funny" by Scott Dikkers is a comprehensive guide to the craft of humor writing. It explores the challenge of eliciting laughter through text, devoid of the auditory and visual cues present in live comedy. The book presents various theories of humor, such as the "benign violation" and the relatable yet overwhelmed character, but focuses on written humor. Dikkers, who evolved from a shy individual to a celebrated humor writer, shares knowledge-based tools for creating humor that resonates with a broad audience. He emphasizes the importance of a solid foundation, starting with a single-line joke or concept, and building upon it...
Download or read book How to Write Funny written by John Kachuba and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2001-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the basics and genres of the comic point of view includes essays and interviews with such authors as Dave Barry, Sherman Alexie, and Melissa Bank.
Download or read book How to Write Funny Characters written by Scott Dikkers and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive Guide to Writing Comedic Characters From one of the world's most celebrated humor writers, this easy-to-follow, step-by-step book lays out a clear system for producing living, breathing comedy characters that audiences will fall in love with. You'll learn... - The 40 comedy character archetypes that get laughs automatically-you don't even have to write jokes! - How to generate endless funny character ideas - The 10 secrets to making your characters strikingly unique. - The 8 common mistakes that will make your audience lose interest in your character. - How to write funny dialogue that sparkles with originality. - Funny dialogue prompts and how to write banter that leaps off the page. - The number one tip for writing funny character descriptions that will pull readers in. - And many more tips, tricks, and techniques! Buy How to Write Funny Characters today and start creating characters that come to life for your audience!
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 Our Dumb Century written by Scott Dikkers and published by Crown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.
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 Comedy Writing Workbook written by Gene Perret and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran TV writer, Gene Perret, shows you how to "think funny" -- and put it on paper. These 87 super workouts guide you through the mechanics of writing jokes, monologues, sketches, and complete scripts.
Download or read book How To Write Comedy written by Tony Kirwood and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First you have to come out with a flow of ideas and decide which ones will work. Then you must give them a tight structure, and then write crisp dialogue which builds in constant laughs. This practical but inspirational book guides new and more experienced writers step by step through the process of each comedy genre. It gives space for your creativity to shine as you gradually build your skills. Beginning with sketches, the basic building blocks of comedy, you’ll find how you can quickly create great premises, and then structure them into two-minute slices of hilarity. The same techniques will help you write a string of jokes and one-liners. · A practical guide to comedy as you write it, from creating mindmaps from which to glean your new material, to techniques of structure, characterisation and dialogue which work. · Covers the distinct techniques and mindsets needed by each genre in turn, in the usual progression of a writer’s career - from jokes and sketches to sitcoms. You’ll also learn how to find outlets for your work, from submitting to the BBC to staging your own show or filming comedy for the internet.
Download or read book Step by Step to Stand up Comedy written by Greg Dean and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you're funny, and you want others to think so too, this is the book for you! Greg Dean examines the fundamentals of being funny and offers advice on a range of topics, including: writing creative joke material rehearsing and performing routines coping with stage fright dealing with emcees who think they're funnier than you are getting experience and lots more. Essential for the aspiring comic or the working comedian interested in updating his or her comedy routine, Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy is the most comprehensive and useful book ever written on the art of the stand-up comedian.
Download or read book How to Write Funniest written by Scott Dikkers and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Your Comedy to New Heights Harness the power of a funny group of writers like the pros do on legendary TV shows like SNL or The Simpsons, or at comedy institutions like The Onion. Scott Dikkers will show you how it's done. He's co-founder and longest-serving editor-in-chief of The Onion, the world's most popular humor publication, and founder of The Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He's also a #1 best-selling humor author and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In How to Write Funniest, he lays out the simple steps to make your satire writing, humor writing, funny stories or stand-up material the funniest it can possibly be by leveraging the brain power of a writers' room. But that's just the beginning. How do you lead a team of comedy writers, which insiders often say is like "herding cats"? How do you defeat stage fright, and what is the most powerful tool in comedy? It's all in How to Write Funniest, the third book in the How to Write Funny series. Writers Scott has mentored, trained, or hired for their very first comedy-writing job have gone on to win several Emmy Awards, written movies nominated for an Academy Award, and become best-selling authors themselves. Inside: Chapter 1: Revolution Make sure you're on the winning side of the once-in-a-millennium comedy revolution Chapter 2: Ready, Fire, Aim Eliminate the number one obstacle to producing the funniest comedy Chapter 3: Chimps Circumvent your natural instincts to create your best comedy writing Chapter 4: Myth vs. Reality Resist chasing writers' room myths that result in bad comedy writing Chapter 5: Who Are These People? Know your team and what role each member plays to draw out the best in them Chapter 6: Taking the Reins Know when to lead, follow, or help for the smoothest possible writer meetings Chapter 7: Being Bossy Lead your team by taking on the most important roll in the writers' room Chapter 8: Let Me Help Take on the second-most-important role in the writers' room to enjoy myriad benefits Chapter 9: The Meetings Employ the best system for running a writers' room for smooth, efficient comedy creation Chapter 10: A United Front Get clarity on the goal of your writers' room to stay focused on the top priority Chapter 11: Thrive in Any Room Be the best individual writer possible to make the best group possible Chapter 12: Taking the Stage Practice running a writers' room to build your leadership skills Chapter 13: Going Virtual Turn your writers' room into a virtual group that can meet any time, any place Chapter 14: Another Secret Weapon Harness the most powerful tool in comedy Chapter 15: No More Stage Frightl Get the confidence you need to face a crowd and make them laugh Chapter 16: Go Nuts Armed with knowledge, go forth and make great comedy Click the "buy now" button to start reading!
Download or read book You Are Worthless written by Scott Dikkers and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Are Worthless is the self-help book from hell. This bracing blast of negativity takes aim at the impossibly cheerful "inspirational self-help" books flooding the market and hits the bullseye, with chapters such as "Your Good-for-Nothing Friends," "Your Miserable Job," and "Life: What's the Use". This hilarious parody collects hundreds of tidbits of painful reality such as "You're no good, you're not great-looking, and you're going to die someday and it's probably going to hurt." Who among us isn't sick to death of the gushy, new-agey inspirational books that blindly assert that everyone is worthy? We all know the truth, and this book is as refreshing as a slap to the face. Just some of the depressingly humorous nuggets of truth include: * You don't really have any outstanding qualities. It's safe to say you're pretty much just like everybody else. * The only reason your pet likes you is because you feed it. * As you get older, you are going to have less and less control over your bladder. * If you take a big risk and follow your dream, chances are you're going to fall flat on your face. You Are Worthless also features a section called "Hopeless Role Models from History," including Helen Keller ("I've had it"), and Abraham Lincoln ("The only thing I'm good at is losing").
Download or read book Writing Humor Lit Starts written by San Francisco Writers' Grotto and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of writing prompts from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Writing Humor starts with a foreword by author Chris Colin, who offers pointers for developing your own comedic style. The rest of the book consists of prompts and space to think, providing opportunities to explore your voice in various hilarious scenarios. Among other ideas, you’ll be asked to write: an account of a bachelor, from the perspective of his refrigerator a Craigslist ad for something you are desperate to sell a eulogy to a pair of jeans that no longer fit an evaluation of a coworker in the form of a school report card a list of embarrassing moments that are funny in hindsight Take to a café, on vacation, or on your morning commute and practice your creative writing a little bit at a time. Special Features Advice from a published writer, followed by prompts Part of a collection of single-subject writing prompt books by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Check out the other books in the Lit Starts series: Writing Action, Writing Character, and Writing Dialogue.
Download or read book Do You Talk Funny written by David Nihill and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change. In what doesn't sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be an accomplished comedian called "Irish Dave" for one full year, crashing as many comedy clubs, festivals, and shows as possible. One part of the plan was at least logical: he was already Irish and already called Dave. In one year, David went from being deathly afraid of public speaking to hosting a business conference, regularly performing stand-up comedy and winning storytelling competitions in front of packed houses. And he did it by learning from some of the best public speakers in the world: stand-up comedians. Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker shows how the key principles of stand-up comedy can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make you funnier, more interesting, and better looking. (Or at least two of the three.) Whether you are preparing for a business presentation, giving a wedding toast, defending your thesis, raising money from investors, or simply want to take on something you're afraid of, this book will take you from sweaty to stage-ready. You'll learn how to: - Craft a story and content that your audience will want to listen to - Find the funniest parts of your material and how to get to them faster - Deal with stage fright - Master the two most important parts of your performance: timing and delivery Ten percent of the author's proceeds from this book will go to Arash Bayatmakou via Help Hope Live until he is fully back on his feet and thereafter to one of the many facing the same challenges after suffering a severe spinal cord injury.
Download or read book Comedy Writing for Late Night TV written by Joe Toplyn and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has written and produced comedy/talk shows for over fifteen years. Now four-time Emmy winner Joe Toplyn reveals his proven methods of writing for late-night television in this one-of-a-kind insider's guide. Toplyn analyzes each type of comedy piece in the late-night TV playbook and takes you step-by-step through the process of writing it. His detailed tips, techniques, and rules include: * 6 characteristics every good monologue joke topic must have* 6 specific ways to generate punch lines* 12 tools for making your jokes their funniest* 7 types of desk pieces and how to create them* 9 steps to writing parodies and other sketches * How to go after a writing job in late night* PLUS a complete sample comedy/talk show submission packetAlso use this comprehensive manual to write short-form comedy for the Internet, sketch shows, magazines, reality shows, radio, advertising, and any other medium.
Download or read book The Eight Characters of Comedy written by Scott Sedita and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's funny? -- Sitcom history -- Half hour technique: rhythm, words, punctuation, timing, and pace, the turnaround, triplets -- Acting technique -- The four C's of comedy -- The characters: the logical smart one, the lovable loser, the neurotic, the dumb one, the bitch/bastard, the womanizer/manizer, the materialistic one, in their own universe -- Finding your comedic note -- Appendix 1: Ten rules of comedy -- Appendix 2: Who said that? -- Appendix 3: Glossary (finding the funny).
