HUMOR WRITING TECHNIQUES:
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HUMOR WRITING TECHNIQUES:

The primary purpose of John Cantu's HUMOR DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES series was to provide his subscribers with a virtual home study course in professional joke writing. John wanted to make you aware that there are very specific techniques and principles being used by comedians, comedy writers, and humorists to create humor. And that YOU can use the same techniques professionals use to punch up existing stories and techniques to create material for either platform presentations or stand-up comedy acts.

The second goal is to enable you to study your personal role models, heroes, and idols with regard to humor and to enable you to see the structure of their humor, listen to the rhythm of their wit, and develop your feeling of confidence to the point where you're utilizing your own innate sense of humor.

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TABLE of CONTENTS:

  1. HUMOR DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES
  2. Thirty Years of Comedy/Humor Writing - Some Lessons Learned
  3. Writer's Block? Look Around You and Create
  4. Perceptions of What's Funny
  5. Don't Pre-Judge Your Initial Ideas
  6. The Danger of Using the Web as a Resource for Your Humor
  7. The Substitution Technique
  8. Writing the Reverse Joke
  9. Observation and Inspection of Wordplays
  10. Complex/Simple Contrast
  11. Anthropomorphism - Giving Human Characteristics to Animals and Inanimate Objects
  12. Exaggeration Technique
  13. The Essence of British Humor - Understatement
  14. The Word Play - Words That Sound Alike
  15. The Misdirection Humor Technique
  16. The Take-away Joke and Its Cousin the Negation Joke
  17. The Combo Technique
  18. The Truth Joke
  19. Formula Jokes
  20. Humor Branding Formula Jokes
  21. The Fill-in-the-Blank Joke Technique
  22. Ignoring the Obvious Humor Technique
  23. The Endless Segue Story Telling Technique and The Backward Story Technique
  24. The Use of Overlays to Spice Up Your Humor
  25. Literal Sarcasm Humor Technique
  26. Pattern Jokes
  27. The Art of Riffing
  28. Increase Laughs by Using Funny Attribute for Quoted Authors
  29. The Relabeling Humor Technique
  30. The Misunderstanding Humor Technique
  31. The Alphabet Humor Technique
  32. The Time Machine Humor Technique
  33. Humor Through Contradiction
  34. Doing-Things-the-Hard-Way Technique
  35. The Hammer & Nail Humor Technique
  36. Physical Jokes - Jokes That Have a Physical Component to Them
  37. Off-The-Wall Humor

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