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David Kline Lovett. Comedy Made Easy
Introduction
You Can Be Funny
What’s Funny
Funny Will Bring You More Money, Honey, and Health
Comedy Lingo
I. Why Be Funny
Funny People Have More Friends
Funny People Are Sexier
Funny People Make Mo’ Money
Funny People Are Smarter
Funny People Get Better Service
Funny People Have Less Tension and Stress
Funny People Are Healthier and Live Longer
Funny People Have a Better Memory
Funny People Are Better Heard
Funny People Are Better in Social Situations
Funny People Give Comic Relief
Funny People Are More Productive
Funny People Use Humor to Speak Up
II. Why We Laugh
We Laugh For Several Reasons. 1.Discomfort
2.Surprise
3.Feeling Superior
4.Hostility
5.Embarrassment
6.Relief
7.Shock
8.Escape
9.Sadness
10.Joy
11.Love
III. Basic Structure
Pick Your Topic
Association List
Attitude
Targets
Punch Premise
Setup Premise
Setup
Assumptions
Clash of Two Stories
Punch line or Second Story
Punch at End
Exaggeration
Persona or Point of View
Two-Step Humor Model
IV. Make it Personal
Self-Deprecating
Personal and Embarrassing
Focus on Your Flaws
Truth and Pain
Emotion and Passion
Attitude
Contrasting Attitudes
Your Unique Characteristics
Play the Fool
V. Storytelling
Setting
Characters
Emotional Perspective
Flaws
Humanity
Hero
Exaggeration
Act-Out
Conflict/Tension
Clash of Conflict
Punch Line
VI. Polishing Your Jokes
Cut-Cut-Cut
Understandable
Specificity
Exaggeration
Punch Word or Phrase
Funny Words and Sounds
Stereotypes
Topical
Question
Rewrite-Rewrite-Rewrite
Transitions
VII. Openings
Relax
Work the Room
Chew Gum
Take Your Time
Scan the Room
Don’t Waste Your Opening
State the Obvious
Ask a Question
Callbacks
Appreciation
On the Way
Self-Deprecation
VIII. Delivery
Sameness
Timing
The Pause
Milk the Laughter
Don’t Step on the Laughter
The Take
Act-out
Exaggerate Physically
Point with an open hand
Movement
Your Hands, Face, and Eyes
Voice and Vocal Variety
Characters and Voices
Make the entire audience one character
IX. Writing
Cut-Cut-Cut
Mind-Map David-Style
Free Write
Association List
Talk, Don’t Write
Storytelling
Callbacks
Build
Mix
Run or Tag
Similes
Observational
Comparison and Contrast
Defend your position
Ask “What If…”
X. Getting Past Your Fear
What is fear?
What are we afraid of?
How Can We Get Past Our Fear?
You are not alone
Comparison, Competition, and Conformity
Forget Perfectionism-Mistakes are Good
You are not that important
The Critic
The Saboteur
Fake It and It’s Okay If You Don’t Make It
Practice, Practice, Practice
One Life This Life
XI. Say Yes to Risk
The Will to Fail
What People Think
Small Risks
Lower Your Sights
Love it All
Be in the Now
It’s Just Something New
It’s the Process
See the Good
Have Fun
No Expectation, No Judgment
Be Grateful
Celebrate
XII. Creativity
Make a Plan
See it—Be it
Read
Pray
Play
Work
Go for a walk
Take a Nap
The Page
Talk to a Friend
Talk to Yourself
Practice, Practice, Practice
Pretend You are Someone Else
XIII. Connect with Your Audience
1.Know Your Audience
2.Work the Room
3.Pretend
4.Be Yourself
5.Relatable Subjects
6.Callbacks
7.Talk to the Audience
8.Call Someone by Name
9.Use the Pronoun YOU
10.Prolonged Eye Contact
11.Practice-Practice-Practice
12.Take Your Time
13.Tell Them a Secret
14.Check In
15.Take It Down
XIV. Odds and Ends
Choosing Your Topics
Expand Your Topic
List Cliches
List Double Entendre
List Homonyms
Malapropisms
Many Meanings
Create the Jokes
Situational Humor
Odd is Good
Know What the Audience is Thinking
What’s Funny About This?
Take it Literally
Two Nouns
Paint a Picture
XV. The Top Ten Joke Templates
1.If—Then or Fiddler on the Roof
2.Old English Term
3.Rule of Three
4.Cliche’
5.Strategy
6.Jeff Foxworthy
7.Observational
8.Seven Deadly Sins
9.Anyway
10.The Secret
XVI. Joke Writing Templates
Recommended Readings and References
About the Author
