How to Write All Kinds of Comedy Jokes

Comedy isn’t easy, but it just got easier with:





How to Write All Kinds of Comedy Jokes

From Absurdity to Zeugma

(That’s Not to Say I Don’t Mention Aardvarks and ZZ-Top)

Includes Tips on How to Write Like

Mitch Hedberg, Brian Regan, Steve Martin, & Woody Allen

Must you be born funny to make people laugh? Groucho Marx wasn’t born with glasses, a mustache, and a cigar. Even Steve “Born Standing Up” Martin wasn’t born wearing an arrow through his head. Lucky for his mom, ‘cause that would have hurt! Although Woody Allen might have been born with frizzy red hair and glasses.

Learn joke construction, several types of jokes, and the humor techniques to write them. This book also features performance pointers, tips on how to write like popular comics, and handy-dandy tools to help you write 10, 20, 50 or more jokes on any topic.

Whether you’ve never written a joke before or you’re a professional, you can benefit from this book. Humor enhances almost everything, so improve your comic abilities with How to Write Comedy Jokes. Enjoy the many examples given, with many new jokes written by the author to prove these techniques work.

The section Other Avenues of Amusement offers insights for Cartoons, Improv, Screenwriting, Sketch Comedy, Sitcoms, and Written Comedy. Includes a tip or two for writing Ads, Animated TV Shows & Movies, Comics, Greeting Cards, Merchandising, and Plays. Learn how easily and inexpensively you can create your own books.

With a lifetime of studying comedy and an extensive career of well over an hour and a half in show business, Dean Burkey will help you achieve your fifteen minutes of fame. But not a second more. The rest is up to you!

“I think this is the most comprehensive yet concise, instructive yet entertaining, fun and funny book on the subject. This book helped make me who I am today. Everyone should buy everything by this author.” -- Dean Burkey, Author of “How to Write All Kinds of Comedy Jokes”, “Holy Laughter!”, and “Monster Laughs”.