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    Free Funny the eBook: Writing Comedy, Jokes, and Humor for Business, Public Speaking, or Just for Laughs
    Free Funny the eBook: Writing Comedy, Jokes, and Humor for Business, Public Speaking, or Just for Laughs
    Free Funny the eBook: Writing Comedy, Jokes, and Humor for Business, Public Speaking, or Just for Laughs
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    Free Funny the eBook: Writing Comedy, Jokes, and Humor for Business, Public Speaking, or Just for Laughs

    By Greg Dean

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    Do funny people have an advantage in business?

    Yes. But only if you know what you’re doing. Research has shown the ability to make others laugh builds better business relationships. Humor can put the nervous at ease, make an important point, and create an overall more enjoyable workplace. But only if you know what you’re doing.

    Have you ever wondered how humor works?

    Free Funny the eBook offers an easy to follow explanation of Comic Structure. It goes into the process of how the human mind creates false expectations, and then how it can be surprised by the unexpected. Understanding how humor works is the first step to knowing what you’re doing.

    Have you ever wanted to write the funny at will?

    This ebook applies Comic Structure to a step by step comedy writing system the Humor Generator. With this process anyone, even you, can learn to write the funny at will. All you have to do is follow the logical path of creating a false expectation and then revealing a surprise.

    Free Funny the ebook gives you the tools to be appropriately humorous at work, in relationships, and life because you’ll know what you’re doing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Dean
    Release dateDec 22, 2016
    ISBN9780989735155
    Free Funny the eBook: Writing Comedy, Jokes, and Humor for Business, Public Speaking, or Just for Laughs
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    Greg Dean

    Greg Dean has been teaching and writing about the fundamentals of comedy writing and performing comedy for thirty-five plus years. When he began, Dean quickly realized there were no documented fundamentals for teaching comedy writing and comedy performing. So, for the past three decades he's made it his life's mission to identify, name, and teach the basic techniques used by all great comedy writers and comedians.These fundamentals were first published in his international best selling book Step By Step to Stand-Up Comedy. Now, his comic structure and original comedy writing system are available online at writing-humor-for-business.teachable.com or visit humor4biz.com for Free Comedy Training.

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      Book preview

      Free Funny the eBook - Greg Dean

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Greg Dean’s Comic Structure

      One-Liner Joke Structure

      Non One-Liner Joke Structure

      What’s New

      Greg Dean’s Humor Generator

      What’s Next

      About Greg Dean

      DEDICATION

      For Frank Miles

      My brother by choice.

      ISBN 978-0-9897351-5-5

      © 2016 Greg Dean - All Rights Reserved

      Cover Design by Kurt Reichenbach

      eBook Publisher - Be Funny Inc.

      This book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or us of this material is prohibited. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express written permission from the author/publisher.

      INTRODUCTION

      Can you really teach anyone to write jokes and humor?

      Yes.

      Uh, would you mind ... elaborating a little on that?

      Sheesh, pretty pushy considering this book is free. Okay, fine.

      Yes, I can teach anyone to write the funny. And the first step to learning how to write the funny is understanding how comedy, humor and jokes work. What are the cogs and gears, so to speak, and how do they all mesh?

      A little background before I go on. I’ve been teaching stand-up comedy and joke writing professionally since 1982, or for history buffs, that’s a little after Teddy Roosevelt left office.

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