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How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint
For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious
Writing
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The Definitive Joke Writing HandbookLearn comedy writing and how
to write a joke with a simple comedy-writing and joke-writing
formula you can use right now to write your own jokes. See why
Amazon reviewers call How to Write Funny &quotoneof the best
books on humor writing.&quotAuthor Scott Dikkers will show you
how to write jokes. He&#8217sa master joke writer, founder of the
world&#8217smost popular humor site TheOnion.com, #1 New York
Times and #1 Amazon best-selling humor author, and successful
cartoonist. Scott created and leads the &#8220Wrting with The
Onion&#8221training center at the famed Second City in Chicago.
His students have been hired for the top comedy writing jobs in TV
and won dozens of Emmy Awards. He&#8217sconsulted for top
entertainment companies like NBC, Comedy Central, and Pixar. This
easy-to-follow guide lays out a clear system and simple formula for
how to write a joke that will get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose
laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn... &#8226The 3 sure-fire
ways to generate funny text &#8226The 11 different &#8220Funy
Filters&#8221and how to use them to write jokes &#8226The secret
to getting rid of writer's block&#8212pemanently &#8226And many
more humor writing tips, tricks, and techniquesTable of Contents1
Introduction Use the techniques in this book to reliably create topnotch
humor writing (page 11)&#82322 Your Brain&#8217sComedy
Engine Access both hemispheres of your brain to eliminate
writer&#8217sblock and tap an endless reserve of comedy ideas
(page 21) 3 The Humor Writer&#8217sBiggest Problem Overcome
this one devastating obstacle to reach the widest possible audience
(page 29) 4 How To Get Laughs Understand the different kinds of
laughs, and how to generate the best one (page 43) 5 The Secret
Ingredient Infuse your humor with this vital component to create
writing that makes people laugh (page 57)&#82326 The 11 Funny
Filters Create any joke using the 11 fundamental building blocks of
humor (page 67)&#8232Funny Filter 1: Irony (page 68) Funny Filter
2: Character (page 70) Funny Filter 3: Shock (page 76) Funny Filter
4: Hyperbole (page 80) Funny Filter 5: Wordplay (page 83) Funny
Filter 6: Reference (page 88) Funny Filter 7: Madcap (page 92)
Funny Filter 8: Parody (page 90) Funny Filter 9: Analogy (page 100)
Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus (page 104) Funny Filter 11:
Metahumor (page 106)&#82327 Using The Funny Filters Layer the
building blocks to create increasingly hilarious jokes (page 113) 8
Process Overview Master this simple system to become a prolific
humor writer (page 137) If you've wondered how you can start
writing jokes, how to tell jokes to your friends, how to add humor to

your writing, how to add jokes in a speech, or how to add humor to
your presentation, this book spells out the simple joke writing
formula professionals use. How to Write Funny is for you whether
you want to find a comedy writing job or just want to learn how to
tell a joke.Click &quotLooinside&quotto see more!