Product Description

If you think you're funny, and you want others to think so too, this is the book for you! Greg Dean examines the fundamentals of being funny and offers advice on a range of topics, including:

• writing creative joke material
• rehearsing and performing routines
• coping with stage fright
• dealing with emcees who think they're funnier than you are
• getting experience
• and lots more.

Essential for the aspiring comic or the working comedian interested in updating his or her comedy routine, Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy is the most comprehensive and useful book ever written on the art of the stand-up comedian.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168804 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Greg Dean is a former Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown, a street performer, and a regular at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. Through his popular "Stand-Up Comedy Workshop" at the Santa Monica Playhouse, Dean has worked with many of todays top comics. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Customer Reviews

Stand-up comedy from A to Z
This book covers everything I had hoped to hear about stand-up comedy, and was an entertaining read to boot. The only thing missing was more about comedy writing itself, but that should be saved for an entire book in itself anyways.

Highly recommended!

Excellent! Don't hesitate! Buy this today!
This great book is well written, funny, and very informational! While this book has lots to offer for the stand-up comedian, the section on writing jokes is probably the best part of the book,. The info in this book is worth much more than the price your paying. Everything is very easy to understand, and best of all......it works!

Don't hesitate! Buy this today!

Worth the price
A fresh, and mostly original approach to stand-up, with a technique for creating mounds of material. Really good.