Comedy Techniques for Variety Artists - Paperback

by Bruce Charlie Johnson (Author)

This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.

​​​​​​​It provides:

• The fundamentals of comedy
• History of comedy
• Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter
• Examples of how those techniques have been used
• Thought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniques
• Methods enabling you to connect more fully with your audience.

And offers exercises assisting you in:

• identifying your style of humor and finding your performance character.
• strengthening your creativity.
• writing individual jokes.
• creating entire routines.

This book helps you create your own comedy material uniquely suited to you and your audiences, and realize your full potential as an entertainer. Turn your routines into unique performances and never feel the need to clone others again.

(This is Volume 4 in the series: Creativity for Entertainers. The volumes can be read in any order)