Comedy Writing Secrets
Melvin Helitzer
How to think funny, write funny, act funny and get paid for it. Packed with over 1000 one-liners and excerpts from major comics, with complete chapters on writing humour, speeches, gags, cartoons and comics, and sitcoms. This book gives you all the facts you need to get serious about making it big in comedy.
£8.79^* - save 20%

Writing Television Sitcoms
Evan S. Smith
This book is a must for established or aspiring writers of sitcoms. Packed with tips from established industry names. Use the author's premise-driven writing concept and you'll never suffer from writer's block ever again.
£8.22^* - save 9%

The Comedy Bible
Judy Carter
From stand-up to sitcom, the comedy writer's ultimate how-to-guide. Provides information for aspiring comedians, discussing how to create a routine and hone ideas, working with a comedy buddy, how to develop and polish material, how to get started in the business, and how to get paid.
£8.24^* - save 10%

Writing Television Comedy
Jerry Rannow
Provides an inside view of the process of conceiving, writing and marketing a winning TV sitcom. It offers detailed instructions on getting started, story outline, pitching to producers and creating a show. Tips, sample scripts and exercises are also provided.
Only £9.95!^*

The Comic Toolbox
John Vorhaus
How to be funny even if you're not. This book teaches you how to create funny characters, or make existing characters funnier by adding focus. A great way to add more laughs to your sitcoms and screenplays.
Only £13.99!^*

Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy
Greg Dean
If you think you're funny, this book is for you. The author examines the fundamentals of being funny and offers advice on creating jokes; rehearsing and performing routines; coping with stage fright; dealing with hosts who think they're funnier than you; getting experience; and lots more. Essential for aspiring comics or working comedians who want to update their routines.
£10.42^* - save 9%

How to Be a Working Comic
Dave Schwensen
An insider's guide to a career in stand-up comedy, including interviews with 16 famous stand-up comics. This book aims to show how aspiring comedians can find a sense of humour and presentation style, market their act, arrange bookings and promotions, and contact agents.
£9.32^* - save 9%

Comedy Writing Step by Step
Gene Perret
If you have a sense of humour this book will help you expand it, order it, and put it down on paper. It explains in detail not only how to write stand up comedy material, but how to write sketches and sitcoms. And to cap it all, the author reveals his fantastic method for getting tons of jokes from any topic you can think of.
£6.57^* - save 10%

Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy
Jay Sankey
Written by a stand-up comic, this is a guide for actors and performers. With observations on what it is that makes comedy work, the author guides the performer through the challenges of being funny in public. It covers writing, character, delivery, performance, set structure, and audiences.
Only £13.99!^*