The success of Steve Allen's "How To Be Funny" led first to the republication of that book, and now occasioned a companion volume, "Make 'Em Laugh". This new how-to book about the art of comedy includes an even richer assortment of examples of the author's unique humour. In "Make 'Em Laugh", Allen laces his formal instruction with hilarious ad-libs, written jokes, TV comedy sketches, satires, song parodies, humorous essays, amusing autobiographical reminiscences, one-act plays, witty speeches, and stand-up monologues from his comedy concerts. Noel Coward called Steve Allen the most talented man in America, and he is probably the most borrowed-from comedian of all time. The perceptive reader will recognise many of the comic ideas that Allen originated during the 'Golden Age' of television comedy - ideas that are still influential in the 1990's.
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Although my first volume on the art of comedy-How To Be Funny-ran to over three hundred pages, it became clear during the later phases of that manuscript's construction that there was no way to avoid the cliche about having "barely scratched the surface." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic essays, creating cartoons, funny letters, other sketches, flop sweat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Prickly Heat, Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Writing Funny Song Lyrics, Question Man, Harry Warren, Red Riding Hood, Writing Funny Letters, Writing Monologues, Johnny Carson, Las Vegas, Milton Berle, George Burns, Louis Nye, Miss Healy, Thinking Funny, Aunt Mag, Bill Dana, Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Robert Benchley, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Glick New!
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Although my first volume on the art of comedy-How To Be Funny-ran to over three hundred pages, it became clear during the later phases of that manuscript's construction that there was no way to avoid the cliche about having "barely scratched the surface." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic essays, creating cartoons, funny letters, other sketches, flop sweat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Prickly Heat, Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Writing Funny Song Lyrics, Question Man, Harry Warren, Red Riding Hood, Writing Funny Letters, Writing Monologues, Johnny Carson, Las Vegas, Milton Berle, George Burns, Louis Nye, Miss Healy, Thinking Funny, Aunt Mag, Bill Dana, Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Robert Benchley, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Glick New!
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- Meeting of Minds: The Complete Scripts, with Illustrations, of the Amazingly Successful PBS-TV Series, Second Series by Steve Allen in Front Matter, page 217, and page 224
- How to Make a Speech by Steve Allen in Front Matter, and page 242
- Your Life (Your Life S.) by John Foster on page 167
- Frere Jacques (French Edition) by Fernand Nathan on page 278
- Bill of Rights by Instructor Books in Front Matter
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- Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 by Roger Ebert on page 448
- Steve Allen's Private Joke File by Steve Allen in Front Matter
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