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Power Essence How to Be Funny Even if You're Not
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How to Be Funny Even if You're Not

Comedy runs on surprise. Surprise has techniques, and techniques can be practised.

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Funny is treated as a personality setting: you either have it or you were born serious. People who are reliably funny do not experience it that way. They are running techniques, most of which they could name if you asked.

This ebook takes the techniques apart one at a time, with examples and drills. Surprise is the engine underneath every one of them, and the rest of the book is about the different ways to produce it on purpose.

Written for anyone who has thought of the good line twenty minutes too late.

Inside

What it covers

01 Surprise: the one mechanism underneath all of it
02 Misdirection, and how to set an expectation on purpose
03 Exaggeration, and the size that actually works
04 Specificity: why the exact detail is funnier
05 Timing as a skill you can drill
06 Callbacks and how to plant one early
07 Reading a room without performing at it
08 Practising when there is no audience
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