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In my 14 years as a stand up comedian, I've seen brilliant jokes go flat on stage because of the poor delivery by inexperienced comedians. But no comedian started out writing a 2-hour show. There are also many how-to sites that will instruct you basic steps on how you can attain your dream to learn standup comedy. You can also watch this technique in action in every single stand-up comedy act.

If you survive your first time on stage and realize this is your dream, here are some helpful tips moving forward. Everything taught in a class can be learned by getting on stage numerous times and figuring it out for yourself. Keep it going by attending open mics and booking local comedy gigs and getting an agent and getting seen by and networking with the right people—these are the kinds of things that, one after another, lead to comedic success off the stage, too.

At 40, I - a veteran stand-up comic who appeared on such late night comedy shows as Caroline's Comedy Hour, Comic Strip Live and HBO's Comedy Central - reinvented myself into an in-demand advertising copywriter who writes promotions for multi-million dollar companies.

More often than not, our jokes would ‘bomb' (ie no one laughed). But there's a tendency among comedians to spend most of their time watching or reading about how to become better. Start to write down everything that makes you laugh and why. Introduce yourself and tell the host it's your first time doing comedy (if you've got a unique name—help them learn it).

At the heart of the book are the eleven "funny filters" - the main ways that jokes are funny videos American, from wordplay to hyperbole to parody. If you watch any high-quality stand-up set, you'll find they are almost entirely shot with multiple cameras. Born on November 22, 1921 in Babylon, New York, Rodney Dangerfield began writing jokes at age 15 and performing his comedy by his late teens.

Let's start off with a book that's extremely great for beginner joke writers and that's also filled with lots of good exercises that you can do even when you have a much bigger tool box and much more experience: The Serious Guide To Joke Writing by Sally Holloway Holloway doesn't just have experience as a stand-up, she has also taught comedy in a classroom for years, which sets her book apart from a lot of the other instructional texts.

For me, the thing that sets this book out from alternatives is that it is brilliantly written and is by someone who has been doing comedy for (20?) years and clearly enjoys doing it, not because it gets you laid, not because you can get paid, but from the joy of it. I've been gigging for a bit now and have used this to both develop material and pick my ego off the floor after a bad gig.