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Humor 101: How to tell jokes for power, prestige, profit, and personal fulfillment by [Danny Murphy]

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Revised and updated in 2014, Humor 101 is a self improvement guide for people who want to tell jokes effectively. You may be a public speaker seeking to improve your Likeability Quotient (LQ) during your opening. You may be a manager or business owner who occasionally has to make a presentation. You may have dreamed of being a standup comedian, like most people, but never found a way to work it out. Or you may just want to get better at telling jokes because you know there’s something very funny deep inside you that’s going to die a tragic death if you don’t figure out how to set it free. Humor 101 will help.

Length: 125 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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ASIN : B005J1ZD5M
Publication date : August 23, 2011
Language : English
File size : 632 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 125 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,500,985 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #464 in Public Speaking & Speech Writing
- #1,061 in Jokes & Riddles (Kindle Store)
- #1,540 in Public Speaking Reference

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Scarlett Jensen

Review of 101 Humor a Manual for Comedians

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014

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This book is a selfstudy course on how to tell jokes, good enough to put you on the path of a professional comedian. If the reader wants to become a master of the stage, he can through this manual, receive a multitude of guidelines on how to approach his performance goals and how to seek success in his venture. You will learn about the what, where, when and how of being a comedian. You will get tips on:

* finding and managing the material as honest, interesting and relevant as possible;
* how to construct a winning joke for success;
* how to learn from masters;
* techniques to deliver jokes;
* techniques to engage an audience through compelling content and performance skills;
* using your natural attributes like voice, posture, accents, facial expressions, attitude and comic looks;
* using aspects like timing, silence and movement;
* finding your niche through consistency, physical humor, imitation, impressions, exaggeration, etc;
* how to improve your stage and social skills;
* how to target material; props, audience and venue; and
* many examples of jokes.

The reader is also informed of all the pitfalls in the business.

Overall, it is a convincing and important training manual for a stand-up comedian or any performer of the stage. The written language is simple and the content easily absorbed, especially for an American audience

Reviewed by Scarlett Jensen, South Africa on 12 April 2013.

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Dean Burkey

Learn to Tell Jokes for Less than Four Bucks

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2012

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Thank you Danny Murphy for your comedic insights and first-hand experiences.

Humor 101: How to tell jokes for power, prestige, profit, and personal fulfillment The Kindle edition's only $3.99. So skip a jumbo latte; and learn how to tell jokes! Become funny enough; and people will buy you lattes. If not, hang out with people who will.

I enjoyed the book and highlighted lots of passages. Not only does Danny Murphy teach about comedy, What Is a Joke?, Types of Jokes, and Tricks of Telling Jokes, he answers FAQs and shares some of His Best Bits as well as his Adventures in Comedy, which culminates with his Ten Commandments of Comedy.

He's also forthright in sharing his failures as well as his successes. Offering an honest look at a difficult business. But also offering practical tips on how to succeed and have more fun, with examples from his stage experiences.

My favorite part being where he refers to my favorite comedian Brian Regan as "the best club comedian I ever saw". And shared what a great guy he is, taking the time to talk to the newer comics, sharing his comedy wisdom. That would be a blast!

Whether you want to become a comedian, a better public speaker, or the life of the party, this book offers basic, and even some advanced, tips on how to tell jokes for Power, Prestige, Profit, and Personal fulfillment. At $3.99 for the Kindle edition, that's about a buck a P.

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Ori Albin

On stage comedian basics

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2012

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A small sized book of informing the basic of stage comedians.
Its nice to see that comedy isn't only talent but requires a lot of practice.

The book will give you the basic ideas on how to start becoming a comedian.

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Lark Spring

Ideal for when you want to have a laugh

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2012

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It's annoying when you try to tell someone a great joke you heard the other day but something goes wrong in the telling and the whole thing falls flat. If this is something you regularly experience, this Kindle ebook can help you. The ability to tell jokes well is an extremely useful skill to have in all kinds of situations, not just if you want to be a professional stand-up comic. Whether you need to break the ice, ease your way to a sale, or just do your bit on a social occasion, read this to get people laughing with you, not at you.

2 people found this helpful

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Sephethus

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Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2013

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For 2.99, you get your money's worth I suppose. I've struggled with being funny outside of just doing impressions and roleplaying a given part. I don't want to be a stand-up comic but I do want to make people laugh more. I'm trying to break out of my shell and be more social, make more friends and attract women. As an introverted engineer, I think learning to make things funny will help with that.

I read the whole book in an hour or so. It was obviously written quite a while back, but that's not the issue. The issue I had with it was that it just wasn't that helpful, but it wasn't totally unhelpful either. The guy's kind of cheesy and also religious, and that's weird... Christian jokes aren't funny, they're culty. That aside, I got enough about basic joke structure to maybe get a sort of understanding about how to be funny. What would have been more helpful perhaps are some exercises of some kind, or tips on coming up with your own. He gave examples of his own based on the structure he described and that was great, examples help, but I don't think I've got enough info just yet to do anything.

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Explorer579@aol.com

Simple and short chapters

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018

I have finished the book, which gives it a four-star. There are some good tips. The book applies mostly to comedy gigs given to an audience, and not to telling jokes to a friend or two. The principles are the same, though.

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Lykewake

A great little guide to how to be funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2012

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Danny Murphy draws on his personal experiences as a stand up and gag writer to explain how to be funny and how to avoid not being funny. An excellent primer whether you're preparing for something like a wedding speech, looking to add a touch of light relief to your business presentations (the reason I read it) or contemplating putting your name down for an open mike at your local comedy club. Murphy guides you through the perils and pitfalls of jokes badly time or delivered to the wrong audience - he's made the mistakes so you don't have to.

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Frank

all about the author

Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2014

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I bought this book to learn how I could do basic humor. Thats usually what 101 means. Instead i learned how an average comic did it for himself. Showing your material is not teaching. I get the importance of the set up, timing and punchline... I didn't find a "how to" in this book. If you know Danny Murphy and you like him, buy the book, otherwise, for the price, I can't complain.

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