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How to Be Funny

Description : No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For more than five decades as a writer performer and keen observer of the social scene he has looked into every aspect of who s funny what s funny and why. Allen shares his discoveries in How to Be Funny the book designed to help everyone develop their special talent for funniness.Now reissued in paperback How to Be Funny covers all the basics including joke telling ad libbing writing humorously

performing comedy emceeing and much more. Allen takes you inside the world of comedy from the early writings of Mark Twain to the more contemporary work of Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Maher.

Allen even provides homework assignments for the budding comic Yet How to Be Funny is far more than just a book for aspiring comedians it will help anyone who wants to be a more amusing conversationalist a more effective public speaker and everyone who just wants to be the life of the party.