Being Funny: 3-in-1 Guide to Master Your Sense of Humor, Conversational Jokes, Comedy Writing & Make People Laugh
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Being Funny - Lawrence Finnegan
Being Funny
3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: Make People Laugh, Social Skills and Conversation Skills
Lawrence Finnegan
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Table of Contents
Being Funny
More by Lawrence Finnegan
Copyright
Table of Contents
Book 1: Make People Laugh
Table of Contents
Book 2: Social Skills
Table of Contents
Book 3: Conversation Skills
Table of Contents
More by Lawrence Finnegan
Book 1: Make People Laugh
7 Easy Steps to Master Being Funny, Conversational Humor, Improv Stand-Up Comedy & Joke Writing
Lawrence Finnegan
Table of Contents
Being Funny
More by Lawrence Finnegan
Copyright
Table of Contents
Book 1: Make People Laugh
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Step 1 - Know Your Audience
Intentional Comedy
Children
Teens
Young Adults & Adults
Middle Age
Seniors
Beyond Age
Chapter 2: Step 2 - Find a Funny Feeling
Research
No, Really, Just Be Funny
Timing Is Everything
No Rules
OK, Maybe One Rule
Common Ground
Why You Can’t Explain a Joke
Last Laugh
Chapter 3: Step 3 - Try It Out
Social Grease
Clubs and Open Mic
Dying
Casual Setting
Improvisation
Chapter 4: Step 4 - Get Used to Word Play
Puns, Jokes and Classic Humor
Punny!
Have a Joke at the Ready
Absurdist and Non-Sequitur
Mimicry, Funny Sounds, and Silence
Timeless or Topical
Set-Up and Punchline
Chapter 5: Step 5 - Explore Physical Humor
Slapstick & Prat Falls
Learn to Fall
Costumes & Looking Funny
Props & The Bag of Tricks
Non-Verbal
Face
Slow Down
Chapter 6: Step 6 - Conversational Humor
Avoid Canned Humor
What’s So Funny?
Surprising Contrasts, Obvious Errors, and Comedic Truth
The Funny One
The Try-Hard
Thought-Emotion-Action
Joy
Chapter 7: Step 7 - Slam!
F*ck Off, Friend!
Love And Hate
Still Basic, Still Unexpected
Hecklers
One In Ten Rule
Pump The Breaks
Conclusion
Book 2: Social Skills
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Step 1 - Work on You
Balance and Reciprocity
Basic Self Care
Drives and Motivations
Acquaintance, Friend or Lover
Date Yourself
Chapter 2: Step 2 - Understand Them
There Is No THEM
What Do You Stand For?
Demographics Vs. Individuals
Why Are They Here?
Follow Your Bliss
Scenes, Haunts & Social Locale
Beyond the Bar
Express Yourself
Chapter 3: Step 3 - Make Small Talk Big
Just Do It
Ice Breaker
Keep It Going
Break Away
Chapter 4: Step 4 - Make New Friends
Take a Chance on Me
Just
Friendship
There Is No Friend Zone
Hello, I Must Be Going
When to Call
Know No
Be a Friend
Help or Hinder?
Chapter 5: Step 5 - Keep Friends
Get In Touch
Shake the Family Tree
Besties
Make New Friends but Keep the Old
Forged In Fire or Bonded Over Time
Quick Tips
Be a Friend
Chapter 6: Step 6 - Go Deep
Observe, Consider and Decide
Run Toward Danger
Deconstruction
Complaining
Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality
Existential Dread
Enrich, Explore and Enliven
Break It Down
Chapter 7: Step 7 - Build Strong Relationships
Go, See and Do
Take a Back Seat
Acceptance
Space and Boundaries
Accountability
If They Hit You, They Do Not Love You
Beyond Self Care: Self-Help
Nurture Your Nature
Conclusion
Book 3: Conversation Skills
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Step 1 - Engagement
Be Approachable
Setting
Smile
Empathy
Kindness
Mirroring
Composure
Chapter 2: Step 2 - Active Listening
Eye Contact
Let Them Talk
Body Language
Touch is Touchy
Back and Forth
Summarize
Chapter 3: Step 3 - Small Talk
Opinions
Open-Ended Questions
Processing or Problem-Solving?
Cognitive Bias
Conversation Piece
Interest Groups
Chapter 4: Step 4 - Know Your Audience
Locality
Cold Reads
Analytics and Data
One Of Us!
Monitor Feedback
Chapter 5: Step 5 - Reflecting & Difficult Conversations
Update and Adjust
Nobody Thinks About You the Way You Think About You
Feedback
Self-Reflection
Don’t Overthink It
Difficult Discussions
Chapter 6: Step 6 - Practice Alone
Multimedia
Limits and Dangers
Chapter 7: Step 7 - Educate and Enrich Yourself
Talk!
It’s Not What You Know; It’s Who You Know
Seriously, Just Go Up and Say 'Hi.'
Beyond Books
Conclusion
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Introduction
Welcome to Make People Laugh
. Off all the communication skills you can learn, improve and attempt to master, humor is one of the hardest to teach. What makes one person laugh might be too dear for another. Even person by person, what gets the individual going at one time might not even make them smirk an hour later. This guide will look at laughter from a biological reflex to a social lubricant.
Not all laughs are created equal, and more times than not, we use humor as a social lubricant and laugh when no humor is implied. Some animals show a sense of humor, and laughter is such a universal trait that lack of one indicates trauma or neurological problems. Every step we take toward why and how the body and mind work together to elicit a laugh, we give examples of development and use of humor. While challenging, learning how to pull laughter from people is therapeutic to the individual and beneficial to the community.
Humor is a topic well worth exploring and a skill worth improving because of all the shared human experiences, nothing breaks the ice, bonds strangers, and fills a body with a warmth quite like a hearty laugh. Healing, relaxing and cathartic, humor is one of the principal ways humanity blows off steam.
There's nothing funny about humor. That's a joke. It can be hard to get tone and inflection across in writing, so any attempt at literary humor has to be framed as comedy or over the top to leave no doubt. Even then, history more often than not will miss the joke, and examples of satire and parody mistaken for straight text abound: few realize Machiavelli's The Prince, handbook or dictators and fascists for centuries, was likely written as scathing critique. Of course, he wrote it from exile about the rulers who kicked him out, so it's not like he could end the book with Not.
The modern age allows us to dissent without such convoluted double-meanings, though humor remains a powerful tool of protest, too.
There is hardly a facet of your life that can't be beneficially impacted by teaching yourself how to make people laugh, with love and intimacy one of the most significant. Poll after poll puts sense of humor
in the top three features people look for in a partner, right up there with appearance and financial stability. The old cliché when you laugh, the world laughs with you, but when you cry, you cry alone
is true, so learn how to express even dark times humorously, and you will discover that finding the light and a way out of darkness is that much easier.
When I mention audience
in the next chapters, I mean a single individual or auditorium full; wherever the intimate versus public dynamic is remarkable enough to matter, I will point it out.
Also, a demographic
is not just an age group, gender, or race; you can group humans by any number of traits, so as we move forward, don't hang up on that word meaning any one thing.
Humor is also used far more than a serious guide on developing communication skills normally would. Because you know; comedy.
So sit back, relax and get ready to learn the fine art of mirth making.
Let’s get started!
Chapter 1: Step 1 - Know Your Audience
Humor is subjective, so you must always be aware of who you are addressing. Ideally, you should employ clean humor, so-called Family Humor, initially. We go into depth on exactly what and how you keep things PG
further on, but don't fool yourself: many adults are easily shocked or otherwise don't laugh at the crude, understand the political and are otherwise a 'tough audience.' We will also explore how to feel out and make headway with those sticks-in-the-mud. It's all about identifying what your audience identifies with and finding ways to exploit language and subvert expectation as you discuss it.
Intentional Comedy
Most intentional comedy is storytelling or dialogue-based. The humorist delivers a narrative and plays on expectations, the essence of humor being the inversion of what is expected. Just standing there telling jokes is difficult because of the earlier-mentioned subjectivity: a good deal of a stand-up comic's intro is setting up our expectations of them. I can think of only a few examples of comedians who don’t start with my family
this or my job
that. You begin the conversation we have all had to get your audience on the same page. Once you establish a subject and tone, you can start messing with it, but you have to know their essential thinking.
You will have a hard time with super-specific topics and subtle body language when the audience is large, and slapstick or roast
humor doesn't translate to small groups. I have listed some gross generalities on universal topics for broad demographics further on. Still, I have to warn you: make your observations and research beforehand if possible. In the next chapters, I will attempt to offer some suggestions to get started, but I have to warn you: this is not a joke guide, per se, but an exploration of how to