A seasoned professional comedy writer offers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, and many all-important insights into selling work.
Offers invaluable advice on getting good material, rehearsing and polishing an act, conversing with an audience, taking charge of an audience, learning from past performances, and much more.
The whole range of tricks for successful comedy writing is examined in this book. The author, one of Bob Hope's top writers, analyzes what he does to produce one-liners, anecdotes, monologues, formular jokes, cartoon captions and teaches the reader how to master the skill.
In" Damn! That's Funny!, " readers learn from a true pro what makes readers laugh, how to write humorous pieces, how to add humor to serious articles, and how to market their material. Written by television comedy writer Gene Perret, a three-time Emmy Award-winner and longtime head writer for Bob Hope.
Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perrets Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of ones work.
From absenteeism to ambition, from Blue Mondays to Thank God, It's Friday, from golf to office parties, Gene Perret has culled from a variety of business-related situations and topics to create this collection of office humor.
Who knew school could be such a barrel of fun? The classroom becomes a laugh-room with these wacky jokes, riotous riddles, and loony excuses. For example: Johnny: Teacher, I don't have a pencil. Teacher: I want you to write 100 times, "I will come to school prepared." Johnny: With what? There are even giggles about those wonderful "out of school" ...
Speakers, writers, and everyone who likes to laugh will grab this witty compilation of fast, funny remarks right off the shelf. The humorous collection, with amusing illustrations throughout, includes side-splitting quotes and comic observations from Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Seinfeld, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball, Mae West, Oscar Wilde, ...
If you've ever been tongue-tied with your glass poised in mid-air, waiting for an inspirational burst of eloquence, here's the reference for you. Whether for a wedding or work party, retirement or anniversary, or even if you just want a witty toast to pull out at a casual dinner, you'll find them all here. Try these: Present a thick-skinned ...
A collection of one-liners, compiled by Bob Hope's head comedy writer, with favourite jokes from stars of the past and present on every facet of life. It includes jokes from stars such as Joan Rivers, Mae West and Groucho Marx.
A collection of jokes and humorous sayings, this contains hundreds of fast, funny remarks and observations, including one-liners from Steven Wright, Milton Berle, Ellen Degeneres and George Burns.
Harvey Green, the Eating Machine is a boy wonder when it comes to consumption. He eats 18 meals a day and 5 or 6 at night and Harvey eats everything in sight, everything! He eats so much, cows and chickens run the opposite direction when they see him. With all this eating going on Harvey grows and grows and grows and then -- WHAM! -- Harvey ...
From the first day of term to the last day of the summer holiday, this is a year-round laughter book for every hilarious moment of going to school. Silly cartoons are also included.
Further publication in the Little Giant Encyclopedia series Contains hundreds of witty comments from the famous and the infamous Handy format and price makes this a perfect gift purchase
"Breakfasts with Archangel Shecky," by three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret, is a humorous story of a guardian angel who can not only turn water into wine (well, actually coffee into Merlot--not a great Merlot, but passable), but can also turn a struggling Philadelphia comedian wannabe into an entertainer of star quality. Is Shecky really an ...
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