Author : Craig Kirsner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0615145035
Discover the secrets to making people laugh and telling great jokes! Also, learn an easy technique to remember the great jokes inside!
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691211078
Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome’s greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity’s funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him “the stand-up Consul.” How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero’s essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience. As powerful as jokes can be, they are also hugely risky. The line between a witty joke and an offensive one isn’t always clear. Cross it and you’ll look like a clown, or worse. Here, Cicero and Quintilian explore every aspect of telling jokes—while avoiding costly mistakes. Presenting the sections on humor in Cicero’s On the Ideal Orator and Quintilian’s The Education of the Orator, complete with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Tell a Joke examines the risks and rewards of humor and analyzes basic types that readers can use to write their own jokes. Filled with insight, wit, and examples, including more than a few lawyer jokes, How to Tell a Joke will appeal to anyone interested in humor or the art of public speaking.
Author : Al Gini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1442281774
When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot understand or avoid. Not everyone tells jokes. Not everyone gets a joke, even a good one. But, Gini argues, joke-telling can act as both a sword and a shield to defend us from reality. As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: ‘If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!’ This book is for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, but also wants to know why.
Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135199035
This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.
Author : John Kachuba
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2001-07-15
Category : Reference
ISBN :
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.
Author : George E. Vaillant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 1998-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674268067
One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality, managing the unmanageable, ordering disorder. And because creativity is so intrinsic to this alchemy of the ego, Vaillant mingles his studies of obscure lives with psychobiographies of famous artists and others--including Florence Nightingale, Sylvia Plath, Anna Freud, and Eugene O'Neill.
Author : Melvin Helitzer
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780898795103
A comprehensive guide to writing, selling and performing all types of comedy. Includes comments, advice, gags and routines from top comics.
Author : Alfred Korzybski
Publisher : Institute of GS
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780937298015
Author : Stewart Lee
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0571254829
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face! In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making musical, Jerry Springer: The Opera. Nine years later, How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed stand-up in Britain, the winner of BAFTAs and British Comedy Awards, and the affirmation of being rated the 41st best stand up ever. Here is Stewart Lee's own account of his remarkable comeback, told through transcripts of the three legendary full-length shows that sealed his reputation. Astonishingly frank and detailed in-depth notes reveal the inspiration and inner workings of his act. With unprecedented access to a leading comedian's creative process, this book tells us just what it was like to write these shows, develop the performance and take them on tour. How I Escaped My Certain Fate is everything we have come to expect from Stewart Lee: fiercely intelligent, unsparingly honest and very, very funny.
Author : Johnny B. Laughing
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2017-06-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781548138790
Create Your Very Own Joke Book! 125 Lined Pages / Customizable Table of Contents Do you love laughing at hilarious and funny jokes? Do you have all the best jokes memorized? Now it is time to create your very own personalized joke book with all of your favorite comedy and humor. Perfect for all ages! With this handy book, you are the writer, illustrator, and joke teller! This is a perfect gift for the young and witty performer in the family. Never forget your punchlines again. ...also has a DIY table of contents for quick referencing! 7x10 inches 25 light lines per page 125 pages on white paper Do-it-yourself table of contents Plenty of space for LOTS of laughs You can save and store all your favorite knock knock jokes, one-liners, question and answers jokes, riddles, knee-slappers, prank ideas, and much more. Makes a wonderful gift for creative kids and adults too! Who is Johnny B. Laughing? The Joke King, Johnny B. Laughing is known worldwide for his hilarious jokes, silly humor, and playful attitude. He is best-selling children's joke book author. He is a jokester at heart and enjoys a good laugh, pulling pranks on his friends, and telling funny and hilarious jokes! He has a wide variety of published joke books and continues to create new content on a regular basis. Comedy and humor make life better. Johnny B. Laughing knows this all too well. Makes the Perfect Gift for Any Occasion! Parties Birthdays Holidays School events Gifts for kids Scroll up and click buy to grab your copy today!
