Comedy Writing Step by Step: How to Write and Sell Your Sense of Humor |
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Gene Perret
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Pages: 281 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0573606056
Pub: Samuel French, Inc
Pub date: 1990-04-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27769
Reader Reviews:
Comedy Writing Step by Step is REALLY 5/5 (6/6 people found this helpful)
It actually DOES live up to it's reputation. Probably the best book in it's class - and I've read a few.
Delivers what it promised (11/11 people found this helpful)
This book does not have all the answers. As the author says "It will provide a spark,the explosion will come when you start delivering your own comedy". However if you have a sense of humour, this book will help you expand it, order it, and put it on paper. You have got it in you to write comedy, this book will bring it out.
To write great one liners, take this book... please (8/8 people found this helpful)
Mr. Perret teaches traditional comedy writing through word association exercises. Reading this book won't make you funny, but doing the excercises might. The best beginner book I've seen.
Probably the best book on writing stand up comedy I've read (13/13 people found this helpful)
This is probably the best book about writing stand up comedy I've read. It really explains to you in detail not only how to write stand up comedy material, but how to write for sketch comedy and sitcoms. You can also get more jokes per topic with Gene Perret's method than any other joke writing method I've seen. This book in my opinion even surpasses Stand up Comedy the book by Judy Carter, because you can get more jokes with Perret's mehod and it tells you how to prepare and overcome the dreaded writer's block, even though I do reccomend Judy Carter's book, I suggest you read Comedy Writing Step by Step first.
A must read for anyone wishing to write comedy. (11/11 people found this helpful)
I have just gone through the book "Comedy Writing Step By Step", and I have to say that it is truly one of the best "how to" books I have ever had the pleasure to read.
Speaking as a professional ventriloquist of 22 years, I have always struggled to write my own material, and after finishing Perret's book I not only have renewed confidence in my comedy-writing abilities, I'm also producing fabulous results!
Perret makes the reader feel as though they knew him personally, and I highly recommend this wonderful work to anyone with aspiring hopes as a comedy writer.
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