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THE SERIOUS GUIDE TO
JOKE WRITING
SALLY HOLLOWAY
First Published in Great Britain 2010
by www.BookShaker.com © Copyright Sally Holloway
This book is available in print at Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or
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(electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording or otherwise) without the prior
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This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or
otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the
publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in
which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition
being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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To Steve, for all the jokes we’ve
shared and all those yet to come.

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Praise
“This is the best book about joke writing that I have ever read (and I’ve
read a lot!). The exercises that she sets out in each chapter are incredibly
easy to grasp and indicate a clear method without in any way handicapping
the individual performer’s creativity. Sally has written a very concise and
accessible book that deserves to be on the bookshelf of every beginner
comic and every seasoned professional. I wish it had existed when I started
out.”
Logan Murray, author of ‘Be a Great Standup’
“I really wish I’d had this book when I was starting out as a writer. Then I’d
have had a time machine as well!”
Wayne Kline, US network TV writer
“Sally enables you to find what is funny about a subject and extract it to
paper in your own unique way. The whole course has been very helpful in
tooling me up for when I get stuck writing jokes.”
“This course has exceeded my expectations. I enjoyed the exercises,
especially joke-webs. I like how they could take you quite a distance away
from the original subject without trying too hard.”
“I loved the surrealist inquisition it really helped to generate ideas away
from the obvious.”
“Since your course, I can’t stop writing redefinitions!”
“I loved the surrealist Inquisition and stream of consciousness ways of
writing because it loosens and frees associations and get the sub-conscious
flowing creatively.”
“I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the course, thank you very much
Sally, it has done wonders for me.”
“Writing jokes from Newspapers has created a revolution in my brain –
thank you, I have never felt so creative.”
Feedback from students on Sally’s Joke Writing Classes

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