How to Write Funny · Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing

The Definitive Humor-Writing Handbook From A Top Comedy Pro

This easy-to-follow guide, written by one of the world's most successful humor writers, lays out a clear system for creating funny ideas that get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn...

• The 3 sure-fire ways to generate material

• The 11 different kinds of jokes and how to tell them

• The secret to permanently overcoming writer's block

• And many more tips, tricks, and techniques

Table of Contents

**1 Introduction**

Use the techniques in this book to reliably create top-notch humor writing (page 9)

**2 Your Brain’s Comedy Engine**

Access both hemispheres of your brain to eliminate writer’s block and tap an endless reserve of comedy ideas (page 19)

**3 The Humor Writer’s Biggest Problem**

Overcome this one devastating obstacle to reach the widest possible audience (page 27)

**4 How To Get Laughs**

Understand the different kinds of laughs, and how to generate the best one (page 37)

**6 Subtext: The Secret Ingredient**

Infuse your humor with this vital component to create writing that makes people laugh (page 51)

**6 The 11 Funny Filters**

Create any joke using the 11 fundamental building blocks of humor (page 61)

Funny Filter 1: Irony (page 62)

Funny Filter 2: Character (page 64)

Funny Filter 3: Shock (page 70)

Funny Filter 4: Hyperbole (page 74)

Funny Filter 5: Wordplay (page 77)

Funny Filter 6: Reference (page 81)

Funny Filter 7: Madcap (page 85)

Funny Filter 8: Parody (page 90)

Funny Filter 9: Analogy 9(page 4)

Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus (page 96)

Funny Filter 11: Metahumor (page 99)

**7 Using The Funny Filters**

Layer the building blocks to create increasingly hilarious jokes (page 105)

**8 Process Overview**

Master this simple system to become a prolific humor writer (page 127)

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