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| How to Be Funny | 
 enlarge | Author: Jon Macks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $13.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 174025
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0743204727
Dewey Decimal Number: 817.009
EAN: 9780743204729
ASIN: 0743204727
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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 Life is too short November 5, 2006
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
I mourn for the trees felled to make the paper for this drivel.
 f - u - n - n - y -- Causing laughter or amusement July 12, 2006
1 out of 23 found this review helpful
What a hilarious feast. I so feel funny now. thank you jon macks. oh yeah. did you know that a little elf lives inside all of us? well he does and its a conspiracy, a government cover up. They don't want you to know. but i deduced it just now. i can prove it to you. this proof is mine and is one of a number of proofs which are mine and that which i own. would you like to know what it is? okay, i will tell you the proof. the next thing you will read is my proof, the proof which i own and which is mine. ahem. ahem. starting now. ahem ahem. here it is. are you ready? here it goes. The proof is this: the word 'myself' stars with a 'my' and ends with an 'elf'. thus 'my elf'. this concludes my proof, that which i own and which is mine. i have a number of other proofs of which i own and which are mine. I could tell them to you. ahem, ahem...
Oh and now for something completely different. buy the book.
more like how NOT to be funny June 10, 2006
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book was terrible! I did not laugh at any of his joke examples. I wish I had known he was a writer for Jay Leno, I would never have bought the book. Sorry to be negative, but I have to warn others!
You need to do your homework if you're not an american before reading this book May 3, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book is an easy read and can be read in one or two sittings.
As a non-american, reading the books and understanding most of the examples required me to look up for most of the mentioned personalities and TV shows.
Most of the techniques are very specific and I found them to only work within a given society only.
The other techniques in the book are plain commonsense...but nonetheless they might be a good reminder for those who lost it:P
I wouldn't suggest this book for non-americans.
 Pretty good book, but... October 8, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
The book is pretty good in a lot of respects, but the techniques and methods Jon delivers seem more theoretical than practical. Steve Allen's How to be funny: Discovering the comic you is a better book in that respect. An even better and more practical/simple book I had found is Stanley Lyndon's How to be funny (howtobefunny.net). But considering everything, all 3 books are good and cover the various points on being the everyday funny person. My advice is that you buy all three as they don't cost that much together. Have fun!
Rogers.
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