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Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.

Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career? If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter’s The Comedy Bible is for you. The guru to aspiring stand-up comics provides the complete scoop on being—and writing—funny for money.

If you’ve got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it’s creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, or providing jokes for radio or one-liners for greeting cards, Carter provides step-by-step instructions in The Comedy Bible. She helps readers first determine which genre of comedy writing or performing suits them best and then directs them in developing, refining, and selling their work.

Using the hands-on workbook format that was so effective in her bestselling first book, Stand-Up Comedy: The Book, Carter offers a series of day-by-day exercises that draw on her many years as a successful stand-up comic and the head of a nationally known comedy school. Also included are practical tips and advice from today’s top comedy professionals—from Bernie Brillstein to Christopher Titus to Richard Lewis. She presents the pros and cons of the various comedy fields—stand-up, script, speech and joke writing, one-person shows, humor essays—and shows how to tailor your material for each. She teaches how to find your “authentic” voice—the true source of comedy. And, perhaps most important, Carter explains how to take a finished product to the next level—making money—by pitching it to a buyer and negotiating a contract.

Written in Carter’s unique, take-no-prisoners voice, The Comedy Bible is practical, inspirational, and funny.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria Books; Original ed. edition (September 5, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743201256
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743201254
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches
Reviewer: J. Thelen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Resource
Review: I don't believe that anyone can teach a person how to be funny.I believe funny is a combination of natural talent and experience.However, I do believe that people who have studied an art form and people who have lived that art form can teach those new to the craft some important lessons. I've found the lessons in this book to be worth the investment. I'll grant I'm not a huge fan of the format (workbook) - and being a little skeptical of the exercises - I initially ignored them.That changed upon reading a scathing review of a comic's show at a unrelated website. The review covered some of the comic's fundamental mistakes and these happened to be the very mistakes Judy's lessons were trying to teach me how to avoid. I went back and started doing some of the exercises (premise writing) that I was initially convinced were a waste of time and I began to see why they were valuable.Now I find myself re-reading portions of the premise writing lessons.Very nice introductory text.

Reviewer: Lupe Fuentes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excelente para practicar
Review: Te ayuda a registrar tu vida cotidiana y así tomar material de las cosas simples de la vida. Es muy interesante.

Reviewer: Andrew A. Burns
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Information in this Book Far Outweighs the Price
Review: This book is a worthwhile investment. Here's why:1) The stand-up intruction is priceless. In reading this book you should be able to go from knowing absolutely nothing about performing stand-up to having an edge on most aspiring comedians.2) Carter covers every medium for comedy, from stand-up to writing sitcoms.3) The book is very well-written. It's easy to read and understand. It's interactive and fun. It teaches you to think.4) It is filled with resources. Places to book a gig. People to contact. Where/How to send your script to Hollywood.5) Carter invites you to contact/email her personally. She wrote this book to help you succeed. She puts her money where her mouth is.

Reviewer: daniele
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice book although not veey technical
Review: It seems a nice book although this is the opinion of a novice that has never practiced or read other books on the topic. It gives a general view on the job. The issue is that it does not go deep on the joke construction techniques

Reviewer: Stephen Jeffrey Watson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: which are useful in their own right
Review: I purchased and read this book in early 2016. Although it was copyrighted in 2001, the content is just as relative today as when it was first published. The Comedy Bible will teach you how to construct a joke, how to get laughs, how to trim excess verbiage, and string jokes together into a set. She will steer you away from hack premises and in the direction of "runners" and "act outs". The section on developing a one-person show is humbling because it exposes the amount of effort and skill required to create such a production. Did I mention it will teach you how to construct a joke and get laughs? Many comedy guides available are more akin to memoirs of comedy experiences, which are useful in their own right. However, Judy Carter's The Comedy Bible will help you generate and perform material.

Reviewer: Roger Mullins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An INCREDIBLE Book!
Review: If you have a tendency to make people laugh, occasionally on purpose, you NEED this book. After years of "Hey, you're kinda funny!" and "Why don't you do an open mic or something?" I decided to 'research' my options. Judy Carter's book is a one-stop source for just such a task. Combining excellent advice from her experience as a comedy coach and peppered liberally with examples, quips, and ruminitions (I'm a big-word fan) from a veritable (see?) who's who in the comedy world, this book is informative from front to back. Her structured, schedule-based approach keeps the neophyte comic on track, whether the desired end goal is actually doing a stand-up routine, writing a spec. sitcom script, or writing more 'literary' humor pieces. The last section - covering the business aspects of comedy - also contains indispensible advice for the comic ready to chuck it all, quit his or her day job, and take to the open road. Buy it, read it, and live it.

Reviewer: David Paseo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: this is a great book to give you things to learn and ways ...
Review: If you are toying with the idea of learning standup as a hobby or possibly a career, this is a great book to give you things to learn and ways to prepare for testing yourself and your material to see if anyone laughs. You learn from this book both a theory of what comedy is and how to get started. Comedy is a very creative process and it can be fun and rewarding. For most comedians the rewards are not becoming the next Seinfeld but spending some time thinking about what bugs you or is important to you and developing a performance that kills. Some of the examples in the book may be dated, but so am I.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Attend her workshop instead
Review: I bought this as my first book to help me in my pursue of a career in comedy (stand up comedy to be specific). I'm not so happy with it. This book seems like it's based on her experience with students in her workshop and if you can not create the same atmosphere she manages to have in her workshops, then you will not get what she intends to give.For example, you have to make sure you have (what she calls) a comedy buddy, someone who she assumes is sitting on the next chair all the time to help you complete the tasks in each section. So if you can't manage to find a comedy buddy, I hope you have a split personality problem.She tends to frame the reader into subjects of her choice and tasks one must do with or without the comedy buddy to continue reading to the next section. That's not so helpful when you're reading all alone in your room or at a coffee shop. She does provide good advice about the do's and dont's of stand up comedy along with some real good tips. However, she tends to contradict herself at times and sometimes seem irrational and bossy (she thinks it's funnier this way).This is not a book to read, it's more of a textbook she could use during her workshops.If you want to benefit from Judy Carter, if she's as good as she's known to be, then attend her workshop instead of buying this book.

Reviewer: Tancer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Para las personas que vamos iniciando en esto de la comedia, este libro es el pilar de cada cómico. La verdad, al inicio es un poco lento, pero poco a poco los ejercicios que da el libro te dan las herramientas necesarias para empezar a hacer tu rutina cómica. También; tiene un capítulo enfocado a los que nos dedicamos a escribir para programas de televisión e internet 👌🏻

Reviewer: Paulo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Pra quem tem interesse em estudar estrutura de comedia e comedia stand-up vale a pena ler, se você for brasileiro como eu o vocabulário do livro é relativamente simples, com meu nível de inglês ta dando pra ler de boa e não sou super fluente nem nada do tipo domino um pouco além do básico.

Reviewer: Book Person
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I love the book. Incredible book. It arrived quickly. Thank you very much.

Reviewer: Deelip Bhadane
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good book

Reviewer: Beatrice M.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Chiamarla addirittura "Bible" è un po' da presuntuosi, ma in tutti i modi Judy Carter ha ripreso un po' i concetti del libro precedente "Stand-up Comedy - The book". Questa, diciamo, è la versione ampliata. Ci sono numerosi riferimenti a grandi comedian.Sono appassionata di stand-up comedy.Libro arrivato nei tempi previsti, in condizioni perfette.