{"product_id":"inside-jokes-9781538770771","title":"Inside Jokes","description":"\u003cb\u003eA step-by-step practical guide to all types of comedy writing, filled with invaluable advice, exercises, interviews, tools, and jokes that will turn anyone into a funnier writer and person, from authors\/editors\/teachers\/perfect 10s Elissa Bassist and Caitlin Kunkel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Comedy writing is hard. Or is it? Not with Inside Jokes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside Jokes\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterclass in a book that teaches you how to write anything funnier, from short humor to essays to psychiatric in-take forms. Each chapter has technical and practical advice to turn comedy outsiders into insiders, comedy readers into writers, and nonfunny nonwriters into funny writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Included at no extra cost: interviews with professional comedy writers, brainstorming and writing exercises, prompts, and assignments that will take your writing from nonexistent to shitty first draft to award-deserving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside Jokes \u003c\/i\u003eis a blend of writing guide, creativity bible, and therapy session with secrets that most writers learn through trial and error and professional humiliation. It’s for:  \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e People who are funny already \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e People who worry they can never be funny \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e People who've been asked to give a wedding toast (hot hip: mention ex-partners in a list of 3, 5, or 17) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Writers who work across genres or want to learn \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Employees who just want to get one solid laugh in their department meeting \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Basically, \u003ci\u003eInside Jokes\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003ci\u003eThe Artist's Way \u003c\/i\u003efor the funny soul. Elissa Bassist and Caitlin Kunkel have taught thousands of classes to thousands of students at thousands of institutions, including people who are now writers for \u003ci\u003eLast Week Tonight with John Oliver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReductress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, film, TV, their own books, and more. Inside Jokes collects their experience, lectures, step-by-step replicable processes, and no-fail techniques to make comedy writing accessible to anyone with something to say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“I guess it’s not enough that Caitlin and Elissa are both monstrously talented, hilarious writers; apparently they have to stick it to the rest of us by also being warm, big-hearted educators with a knack for breaking down the dark art of joke craft in a way that even a dummy like me can understand. Did I mention they’re both hot? RUDE.” ―Emily Flake, cartoonist for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThat Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I felt every emotion reading this book by Elissa Bassist and Caitlin Kunkel: joy, bliss, euphoria, horny, cheese-hunger, gigglefits, delirium, horny. Work wives Elissa and Caitlin are true comedy masters, alongside French clowns and a dog looking directly into the camera.” ―Janine Brito, writer and actor on \u003ci\u003eGirls5Eva\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMr. Mayor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51312968466737,"sku":"9781538770771","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_57990d32-abc8-4836-a9f9-592ca27b9eba.jpg?v=1777608779","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/inside-jokes-9781538770771","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}