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Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers

Inside Jokes: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers

Kunkel, Caitlin
Bassist, Elissa

Paperback

HumorTelevisionWriting Instruction

Publisher Price: $19.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 1538770776
ISBN13: 9781538770771
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.74
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
A step-by-step practical guide to all types of comedy writing, filled with invaluable advice, exercises, interviews, tools, and jokes that will turn anyone into a funnier writer and person, from authors/editors/teachers/perfect 10s Elissa Bassist and Caitlin Kunkel.

Comedy writing is hard. Or is it? Not with Inside Jokes.

Inside Jokes is a masterclass in a book that teaches you how to write anything funnier, from short humor to essays to psychiatric in-take forms. Each chapter has technical and practical advice to turn comedy outsiders into insiders, comedy readers into writers, and nonfunny nonwriters into funny writers.

Included at no extra cost: interviews with professional comedy writers, brainstorming and writing exercises, prompts, and assignments that will take your writing from nonexistent to shitty first draft to award-deserving.

Inside Jokes is a blend of writing guide, creativity bible, and therapy session with secrets that most writers learn through trial and error and professional humiliation. It's for:

  • People who are funny already
  • People who worry they can never be funny
  • People who've been asked to give a wedding toast (hot hip: mention ex-partners in a list of 3, 5, or 17)
  • Writers who work across genres or want to learn
  • Employees who just want to get one solid laugh in their department meeting

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