Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy

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Summary: A Great Place To Learn Comedy
Review: Whoever Greg Dean is he's to be commended for an excellent and incisive tour through the joke-writing (and performing) process. This thing is a real soup to nuts guide, takes you from the beginning of how to formulate your funny ideas and then coaches you every step of the way along in order to realize them, rehearse them and perform them. They say there's a glut of stand up comedians out there. What there really is is a glut of BAD ONES. But people who are trying to be funny should get ahold of this no-nonsense guide to making plenty of nonsense. If you've got good ideas, this ought to help you develop them. Then you can be one of the GOOD ONES.... and god knows we need as many of those as we can get!

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Summary: From Plato to Goofy
Review: Wow! I mean it Wow! Ahoy all Comedy writers, this book is your North Star! Your Bible! This is Darwin's missing link! [While a monkey crouched down in the evolution line, it was Greg's book he read & learned how to do stand up]. A regular unagenius manifesto! Ladies & gentlemen...this is the first [cue the Vienna Choir "Hallelujah" track], mapping of the comedy genome. This will do for comedy what the Xerox machine did for silly putty. Thanks to this 11th tablet, I went from writing Batman sound effects to becoming a bonafide WGA comedy writer. From crayon to pen. From documentaries to sitcoms. Now when I punch an octopus instead of getting just the usual numerous messy ink blots, out comes an Emmy award winning Seinfeld script. Everything I write now is so good, I only use highlighter pens. Thank you Greg Dean! Get this book! And I promise that if you do.... you too, will one day be able to write reviews as riveting as mine!