Cantu's Comedy Wit and Humor Wisdom
reprint CantuHumor ezine
by John Cantu ©1999-2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PERFORMANCE/PLATFORM SKILLS:
- The Danger of Using the Web
- Stage Fright?
- You're in Good Company
- Only the Truth is Funny
- How to be more dynamic on stage
- Part two
- Publicity
- Introductions. Getting a good introduction
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Dealing with Hecklers
- Dealing with distractions
- Do Not Be Afraid of Jokes
- Inability to See Your Audience
- How to Determine the Best Form of Humor for You
- Some Tips on Using a Microphone Professionally
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Who Is Humorous?
- "Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow" and other myths
- Feed back. Good feedback - versus the useless
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Achieving Success as a Comedian/Humorist
- Evaluating a comedy coach, a how-to book...
- Boost Your Audience Response and Appear More Charismatic
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Stage Fright - How the Pros Deal with It.
- Part Two
- Diversity
- Ten best things ever said about comedy/humor
- Your Goals - Big Enough?
- Hey! Keep It Clean, Okay?
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- To Improve Your Material, Create a Humor Story
- Some Thoughts on Success and Greatness
- What's Funny?
- Bombing When You First Try to Use Humor
- Durability of Your Material
- Begin to Practice Optimal Behavior
- Tips for editing and for proof reading
- The Pros Memorize Their Material
- How to Make Any Subject More Humorous
- Part 2
- Part 3
PART II
HUMOR DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES
- Introduction
- The Substitution Technique:
- Writing the reverse joke
- Part Two
- Humor Principles - #1
- Observation and Inspection of Wordplays
- Writing entertaining and realistic dialogue
- Part Two
- Complex/simple Contrast
- Anthropomorphism
- Exaggeration Technique
- The Essence of British Humor - Understatement
- Thirty Years of Comedy/humor Writing - Some lessons Learned
- The Word Play - Words That Sound Alike
- Off-The-Wall Humor
- Finding humor lessons For You in the Work of Gary Larson
- Part 2
- Your Humor Lessons In The Work of Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Doing Full-scale Sketches
- Part 2
- Some additional thoughts on sketch writing
- The Misdirection Humor Technique
- The Take-away Joke and It's Cousin the Negation Joke
- The Combo Technique
- The Truth Joke
- Formula Jokes
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- The Fill-in-the-Blank Joke Technique
- "Ignoring the Obvious" Humor Technique
- The Endless Segue Story Telling Technique
- The Use of Overlays to Spice Up your Humor
- Literal Sarcasm Humor Technique
- Pattern Jokes
- The Art of Riffing
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Writer's Block? Look Around You and Create
- Increase Laughs by Using Funny Attribute for Quote Authors
- Increase Laughs by Using The Relabeling Humor Technique
- The Misunderstanding Humor Technique
- Your Material's Acceptance
- The Alphabet Humor Technique
- Increase Laughs by Using The Time Machine Humor Technique
- Don't Pre-Judge Your Initial Ideas
- Part 2
- Increase Laughs by Using Humor Through Contradiction
- Increase Laughs by Doing-Things-the-Hard-Way Technique
- The "Hammer & Nail" Humor Technique
- Physical Jokes - Jokes That Have a Physical Component to Them
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