The last pages of this book contain 123 templates or forms for joke writing. I believe our unconscious minds simply need a guide or form in which to flow. When you use one of the templates, the structure gives your creativity a focus on which to create funny, original jokes.
Comedy Made Simple is a mold, a guide, a pattern, and pre-developed plan for anyone to design and deliver jokes, not just any joke, an original funny joke. No more copying from the Internet and trying to tell a worn-out, haggard joke where someone shouts out the punchline before you do. This can be devastating and a setback that can make one want to quit altogether. Quitting does not need to happen.
What’s Funny
Creativity is one of the beauties of humor. Humor is infinite. It is creative, and creativity never ends, especially when you have the 123 templates to use. Anything you can think of has the potential to be funny. Anything! We can all laugh at or with just about anything. Remember why we laugh. Remember anything has the potential to be funny.
Humor works best when the audience can relate. Getting an audience, your friends and family, to relate is where your life is an asset. We all have or had a mother or someone who acted in that role. We all go to the bathroom, eat, and sleep, and most have had or would like a mate or would like to get rid of one, or maybe two.
The single biggest secret to what’s funny is…surprise and the unexpected. It is where the audience is taken off-guard. A great or even good comic leads the audience down a path then all of a sudden and unexpectedly, there is a sharp turn to the left. Suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, we have laughter. We have joy. We have success. The world is a better place with humor.
Funny Will Bring You More Money, Honey, and Health
Being funny can help you have more money, honey, and health. Humor will indeed help you have more friends. It is well known that people want to be around funny people. When you have a choice, who wouldn’t decide to be around the funny person?
Laughter has been studied and found to be healing. Proverbs 17:22 says that “A happy heart is good medicine.” People have had remarkable results overcoming cancer simply by laughing. There is a woman in the movie, The Secret who simply watched funny movies over and over and had a miraculous recovery from “incurable” cancer.
Humor has many benefits. A good sense of humor can be the difference between a professional speaker who makes $500 a speech or $5,000 a speech. Humor helps people learn more easily. A speech or talk is more entertaining when humor is included. Studies show that the top executives in corporations in general have a better sense of humor than most everyone else. Simply put, when you are funny it can help you to have more money, honey, and health in your life.
| Very Important Note: This book is written for a stand up performance. Life is a performance. This information is for all interpersonal interaction, writing, speeches, presentations, interacting with friends, bosses, employees, clients, business interactions, lovers and spouses. Humor will make all areas of your life better, and everyone you touch, one smile at a time. With humor there is joy, and the world can always use more joy. |
I. Why Be Funny
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
~ Mark Twain
Imagine you are stranded on a desert island with two people. Both people are smart, industrious, motivated, are the same gender, and have identical appearance, but one is funny and the other isn’t. Which person do you want to be with on the desert island? Most everyone would agree they would choose to be with
the funny person.
Funny People Have More Friends
There are three major ways to be more popular: be rich, be beautiful, or be funny. We like people who are funny. Funny makes us popular. Funny helps us in meeting new friends. Funny can even help us find a special friend, a really special friend. Funny gets us noticed.
Funny People Are Sexier
People who are funny are sexier. Who wouldn’t want to share their DNA with someone funny? There is no accident that almost every personal ad reads, “Wanted: someone with a good sense of humor.” I won’t go into details, but it is known that funny people have more sex. If I were you, I would finish reading this book!
Funny People Make Mo’ Money
A sense of humor can be the difference between getting the job/promotion or not. As comedy writer Jon Macks pointed out in his book How to be Funny, “It’s a proven fact that people who can make others laugh make more money. It’s part of the reason the president only makes $400,000 a year, while Carrot Top pulls down $17 million.”
Funny People Are Smarter
There is a reason funny people are smart. Funny people need to be quick-witted, understand human nature, and think things out. To have a sense of humor one needs to have a grasp on the world, how we as human beings behave, and why we do what we do. Humor takes skill and intelligence. Funny people have the ability to connect seemingly unconnected events. A funny person has the ability to see the irony where most see a problem.
Humor promotes learning and makes what is said more memorable. Studies have shown that students who attend lectures that include humor achieve higher test scores than students who attend the same lectures without humor. When learning is fun we benefit.
Funny People Get Better Service
When you are funny and in a good mood, the world is simply more amicable. You are more pleasing and fun to be around, and that is reflected back to you. One day I was at a sushi bar and was in a great mood because I had just bought my dream car, a red BMW convertible. I joked with the chef about how great life was and how talented he was. Then he gave me a sashimi salad. I looked at the menu and he had given me the full salad for free, it was priced at $9.95, not bad for a few jokes.
Funny People Have Less Tension and Stress
It has been proven by Dr. Minnifield in his work The Minnifield Principle of Humor that you cannot be stressed or angry when you are laughing. The simple test that Minnifield uses is to hold on to something as tightly as possible. At the moment of highest tension and stress, try to laugh. When you laugh, tension leaves your body and you will not be able to maintain your firm grasp of the object. For some wonderful reason, stress and laughter cannot be in your body at the same time. Go ahead and try it.
Funny People Are Healthier