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Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy, written by Greg Dean, is a comprehensive guide for people who are funny, want to be funnier, or have dreams of being a stand-up comedian. This first-of-its-kind audiobook demystifies the craft of comedy by breaking it down to the fundamental skills used by professional funny people. Dean lays out these skills in simple-to-understand lessons that are easy to practice and master.
Dean's original joke diagram explains how jokes are built around two interpretations of one magical element called the connector. You'll learn how to see both the expected interpretation and the unexpected reinterpretation of the connector. And you'll be writing jokes after just one listening.
Dean also teaches "act outs" by explaining points of view (POVs). Act outs are the quick scenes comics act out during a routine. The three POVs inside a scene are the fundamental tools for understanding why act outs are so funny. You'll learn how to form jokes by shifting form one POV that creates an expected interpretation to another POV that reveals an unexpected interpretation. It's fun and easy, and it works.
This audiobook also covers rehearsal, so you can remember your jokes in the same way as you tell a funny story in a social situation. Dean explains how the mind normally remembers in pictures, sounds, and feelings, and then forms those thoughts into words. Memorizing words changes the function of the mind and the sense of humor. Dean offers a simple method for turning every joke into a scene so you can remember in pictures, sounds, and feelings, and tell the story of your jokes. Memorization becomes almost automatic !
Step By Step to Stand-Up Comedy also covers overcoming stage fright, handling hecklers, coping with going blank, dealing with bombing, riffing with the audience, crossing the hurt line, and getting experience. Learn in hours of listening what most comedians learn through years of stage time.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Positives and negatives THE ULTIMATE REVIEW.,
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This review is from: Step by Step to Stand-up Comedy (Paperback)
My little story is that I've been writing comedy for the past year and using my initiative I knew all of this already. The information covered is VERY basic and sticks to a very derivative format, delivery followed by a punchline which includes basically every clichéd comedic technique used over the past 50 years and the self written jokes are simply awful.I found the chapter on how to get yourself known (open mic nights etc) quite useful but again very very simple and experience combined with wits can prove all of this and more. Books are useful for information and interpretation but with any art form, you can't learn it from a book, it's all about self expression not planning each step of a simple routine in an approach the authors use. I'm not trying to prove my own ideas or write a book here but the best things you can do are gain influence,experience,originality and you have yourself an art form rather than a bloke telling jokes derived from his inexperienced television. Love and typin from me x
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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A Giant Step For Comic Mankind!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Step by Step to Stand-up Comedy (Paperback)
I have been doing stand-up for a few months now and wish I'd read this before I started. Lots of very essential advice. A must-read for any new comic. Some of the stuff on joke structures was a bit complicated, but maybe I'm just stupid! Otherwise very readable and totally invaluable.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding guide for stand-up performers,
By A Customer
This review is from: Step by Step to Stand-up Comedy (Paperback)
An outstanding book for anyone interested in transferring their comedy ideas into a practical stand-up routine:- The book covers the following topics: Through practical advice and a series of useful excersises Greg isolates the elements of comedy on an almost scientific linguistic level. Thereby allowing the writer/performer to explore, create and fine tune their original ideas without relying on cheap gimicks or plaguerising other performers. It has more in common with a NLP text or strategic business manual than some of the more anecdote based books available, although the book does contain several anecdotes when elaborating examples. I purchased this book initially just to help with gag writing for screenplays but have become so confident through the process that I am now putting together actual routines for public performance. Well worth it.
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