Funny Book on Being Funny

It's been said many times and many ways that the study of humor or comedy or funnyness is often not nearly as funny as you would think.

And in my vast experience of reading a few of those sorts of books, I tend to agree with those thoughts. Some just are not as exciting. It's almost like taking a research symposium (on a topic you like, mind you) and dragging out all of it's finite details that you personally don't think are important, but someone has and says they are. So you get stuck with that.

But in Jon Macks' book "How To Be Funny," it's not like that. While some reviewers mention there are funny bits in this book, they don't seem to understand that it's not suppose to be a humor book, but it is funny in discussing how to be funny.

I'm probably 53 1/2 pages or so into it, (just picked it up last night), and haven't been bored with it yet - except for all of the constant page turning in a single sitting. (Boy are my arms tired)... Oh, sorry.

Anyway, my advice to you in 3 little words.........

Go find it
Go read it
Go put it.... (man I gotta work on these 3-word pieces of advice).

--David

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