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How to Write Funny
- Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Dikkers
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publisher's Summary
The definitive joke-writing handbook
Learn 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 "one of the best books on humor writing."
Author Scott Dikkers will tell you how to write jokes. He’s a master joke writer, founder of the world’s most popular humor site TheOnion.com, number one New York Times best-selling humor author, professional public speaker, and successful cartoonist. Scott created and leads the “Writing with The Onion” training 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’s consulted with 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...
- The three sure-fire ways to generate funny text
- The 11 different “Funny Filters” and how to use them to write jokes
- The secret to getting rid of writer's block - permanently
- And many more humor writing tips, tricks, and techniques
Create any joke using the Funny Filters, the 11 fundamental building blocks of humor:
Funny Filter 1: Irony
Funny Filter 2: Character
Funny Filter 3: Shock
Funny Filter 4: Hyperbole
Funny Filter 5: Wordplay
Funny Filter 6: Reference
Funny Filter 7: Madcap
Funny Filter 8: Parody
Funny Filter 9: Analogy
Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus
Funny Filter 11: Metahumor
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-08-20
not audible
I am reading it after a month of purchasing it with my credit and can't hear a thing. this audiobook is not audible. ironic and disappointed P.S: THEY SAY I CAN'T EVEN RETURN IT
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- J. Genovese
- 04-02-19
What I expected
Wasn’t looking for a comical piece about writing for standup which many other books on audible seem to be about. This is exactly the “how to” guide for writing funnier by using a simple formula. Subtext + funny filter = funnier writing.
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- JASON B
- 22-07-20
RUN don’t walk away from this one
One of the worst book I’ve listened to in a long time. Author likes to give you a bunch of cliffhangers and analogies, but never anything concrete on how to write funny. Instead, he pretends like he has the magical formula on how to write funny but guards it with his life by asking you more questions. Book is a frustration nightmare that will make you want to destroy your phone and give up listening to books completely. Only thing useful about this book is the refund policy.
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- T S
- 22-06-19
Unlock the tools
Nice to hear the comedy techniques spelled out ... now I’m inspired to go finish that screenplay!
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- Joseph Frazier
- 17-08-20
Great Listen to know more about the Comedy Process
I enjoyed this thoroughly and have been writing comfortably ever since! I plan to listen to this a few more times. So much to take in and easily digestible.
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- Timmy the G
- 09-07-20
practical advice
I liked the clear easy to understand techniques outlined for writing funny. His message is you don't have to be an inspired comic genius to write funny. Just follow these guidelines and work hard.
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- NikNieb
- 27-01-20
Fantastically concise and quality advice.
I never write reviews on here, but I think I'm going to start, especially if I continue to find gems like this one. I'm a funny guy. At least I think so. And I know what funny is... instinctually. But having it spelled out like this was great. So many moments of "Oh, THAT'S how that works!" and "That's how that's done!" I appreciated the straight forward approach and I will be looking for the follow up books to go more in depth.
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- avidbuyer
- 25-01-20
Very informative with good exercises to prime the funny mind
Coming back to sketch I listen to this in the car . how dikkers explains the different types of funny filters helps the novice comedy writer. I also took a class in which he went into detail about how to make money in the comedy biz. Overall he is great resource and you will get your money’s worth !
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- John Nelson
- 19-01-20
Great comedy toolset
Take it from the pro, Scott really delivers in this book with all the steps to achieve your comedy writing goals. If you're as big a fan of the Onion as I am, this is a great book
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- Michael A Giannulis
- 09-01-20
Really loved this book
The 11 filters are very smart and definitely help comedians or comedy writers to create better jokes and observations.
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- Eric Smith
- 25-11-19
Funny Writing Can Be Taught!
This is an easy-to-follow guide for improving your humor writing. I listened to it twice!
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- Per Burmeister
- 23-04-20
Good How to.. book
This is a very informative how to.. book. Good break down of the art of writing funny.
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- Customer
- 17-02-19
Unfortunately no useful advice for a writer
I had the impression that this book would discuss humorous writing in a theoretical viewpoint. Unfortunately, "theory" was too light to help in actual writing process. I got the impression, specifically from the part regarding SF that the writer had not read enough in SF field, although it did not seem to prevent him from taking an authoritative approach in discussing this branch of literature. All in all, I was unsure how the writer had arrived at his conclusions. I wish this book had had something real to offer. I would not have given this negative feedback if I had felt the writer had really tried his best with this book.
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- david s.
- 01-01-20
A dull plod
Just couldn't get into it, too much a head trip and no heart, nothing funny about it