i'll be honest ...i havent read this book yet. thats why i tried to give it a rating in the middle. but, what i do know is... the first 45 pages of the book. are literally just reasons of why it was a good thing you bought the book and saying how much it's going to help you. ..wtf?
Bad. This was a very disappointing book. It was neither funny nor informative. If you would like to learn to be funny, there are much better books out there.
Sorry, but I got bored I found some funny material in this but mostly I got bored and eventually ended up scanning the second half or so of the book. I was looking for something like an Idiot's Guide or Dummies Guide to being funny and this isn't it. A lot of the material just didn't seem funny to me. Maybe I just didn't get it!
Humor examples This book was a nice overview of creating humor--the varied examples of humor and the ways it could be used were the best. The book was rather optimistic that we all could "create" good humor after reading this book. Gave some good insights, but hard to write a "how to be funny" book. Still, a worthy try. Did not come close to exploring theories of humor or where it comes from, but the book did not set out to do this.
This is a very funny book! Thank you Professor Willis! How to Be Funny on Purpose is clearly a life-long labor of love by Edgar Willis, a Professsor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Michigan. Professor Willis, thoroughly enjoying his subject, has written a book both consistently funny and deeply thoughtful. He has combined, in counter-point, a great storyteller's skills with a keen analysis of the purposes, causes and structure of humor -- why and what makes us laugh -- and its most ubiquitous form: the joke. This is a fine exploration of one of the most enjoyable (and perhaps mysterious) aspects of life, humor, and the creation of humor (and jokes) out of whole cloth. Every page will make you smile, if not outright guffaw.
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