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Un comico deve avere la mimica, la faccia giusta, deve saperci fare, ma per scatenare una risata fragorosa ha bisogno di parole. Per dirla con Gene Perret: «La prima cosa che il comico chiede quando arriva al lavoro il lunedì è: "Dov'è lo script?"». L'aspirante autore comico è proprio il destinatario di questo arguto e divertente (e come potrebbe essere altrimenti?) manuale di scrittura comica, uno strumento che conduce passo passo gli scritto...

28 hilarious "self-help" lessons for seniors who've heard it all.With age comes wisdom. Mostly, we become wise enough to realize that we can't do some of the things we did so well when we were young. The beloved comedian George Burns said it quite eloquently: "I can do anything at eighty that I could do when I was twenty. That gives you an idea of what terrible shape I was in at twenty." Self-help books offer solid, beneficial techniques, but ...

From the moment you hear you're going to be a mother, you'll enter into a brand new world that you never imagined. Your daily tasks will be consumed with complex engineering (trying to figure out how to buckle your child's car seat), counseling (healing emotional stress caused by endless boo-boos), learning a foreign language (Braxton-Hicks, teething ring, nasal aspirator, and onesie, just to name a few), and nighttime navigating (Do you remem...

From the moment you hear you're going to be a father, you'll enter into a brand new world that you never imagined. Your daily tasks will be consumed with complex engineering (trying to figure out how to buckle your child's car seat), counseling (healing emotional stress caused by endless boo-boos), learning a foreign language (Braxton-Hicks, teething ring, nasal aspirator, and onesie, just to name a few), and nighttime navigating (Do you remem...

In" Damn! That's Funny!, " readers learn from a true pro what makes readers laugh, how to write humorous pieces, how to add humor to serious articles, and how to market their material. Written by television comedy writer Gene Perret, a three-time Emmy Award-winner and longtime head writer for Bob Hope.

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A teacher has the intellect of a philosopher, the stamina of an athlete, the patience of a saint, and the pay of a teacher.Your poor teacher endures chaotic classrooms, parent-teacher conferences, edicts from the principal, homework that's incomplete, and complaints from school boards, principals, assistant principals, hall monitors, parents, and other teachers. Even more impressive: your teacher puts up with you. This long-suffering professio...

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Three-time Emmy-award winner Gene Perrets Comedy Writing Step by Step has been the manual for humor writers for 24 years. With this, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of ones work.

Beginning comedy writers and performers may think funny can't be taught, but legendary comedy writer Gene Perret, winner of three Emmy Awards, tells otherwise in this guide to what makes a good joke work. Outlining the 10 commandments of comedy, the unbreakable rules that every gag must follow in order to be funny, this book liberates readers and allows them to immediately begin writing better and funnier comedy material. By following Perret's...

Can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, practice, practice". That is more than a joke, it's solid advice. Consider world-class performers in any field -- golf, figure skating, music, whatever. One thing you can safely say about each is that they achieved their level of skill through practice. To excel in any endeavor, you must work on and perfect your technique. Comedy writing is no exception. In this book, Emmy-winning TV wri...

Comedy writing is an acquired skill. No one is born a comedy writer. The desire may be there from an early age, but the techniques must be learned, developed, and honed. Fortunately, the best teachers are readily available. They are the comics of the past and present, the television shows you see daily, both current versions and reruns. They provide your Ph.D. course in humor writing.In "Comedy Writing Self-Taught, " Gene Perret, a three-time ...

This is the HARDBACK version. Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing for a television show anything like it was on the old Dick Van Dyke Show?" Tales from the Script invites you inside the writing rooms and into the writers meetings for such legendary television shows as The Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, Mama's Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, t...

Breakfasts with Archangel Shecky, " by three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret, is a humorous story of a guardian angel who can not only turn water into wine (well, actually coffee into Merlot--not a great Merlot, but passable), but can also turn a struggling Philadelphia comedian wannabe into an entertainer of star quality. Is Shecky really an angelic visitor from the other side? Or is he just a blowhard deadbeat who's trying to con a few fr...

Gene Perret shows the reader the why's and how's of getting sidelined creativity back on track and does it with elan!

Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing for a television show anything like it was on the old Dick Van Dyke Show?" Tales from the Script invites you inside the writing rooms and into the writers meetings for such legendary television shows as The Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, Mama's Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, the variety shows of Bill Cos...