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Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy
by
Greg Dean,
Steve Allen
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: <UL> <LI>writing creative joke material <LI>rehearsing and performing routines <LI>coping with stage fright <LI>dealing with emcees who think they're fun
...morePaperback, 208 pages
Published
July 13th 2000
by Heinemann Drama
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Informative, to be sure. Can't evaluate any of the practical teachings, but much of the advice reads true for other types of public speaking for which I have more experience.
As a Kindle book, there are a few formatting issues, but they are relatively minor (and so would be easy to fix, and therefore should be).
I'v heard it recommended by several well-known comics, and it isn't difficult to see why.
As a Kindle book, there are a few formatting issues, but they are relatively minor (and so would be easy to fix, and therefore should be).
I'v heard it recommended by several well-known comics, and it isn't difficult to see why.
I've never done stand-up and last week (March 12, 2008), I decided I was going to give it a go. My friend Sammy gave me this book (to borrow...I'll give it back) and it's a good start. It won't make you funny but it just might help me learn to deliver.
This one is a good intro to the theory behind joke structure as well as formulations on how to write jokes.
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