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Laugh Tactics
- Master Conversational Humor and Be Funny on Command
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Exact phrases to develop your sense of humor, master witty remarks, make people laugh, and be funnier - even if you're not naturally funny.
Laugh Tactics is full of strategies that dissect, break down, and analyze all of the types of humor that you'll encounter in daily conversation - stuff you can really use with people you talk to. We're not all trying to become standup comedians, and this isn't a book about ha-ha jokes with setups and punch lines.
Learn to simply make a better impression on people, put them at ease, charm them, and make them smile with you.
Learn witticisms, quips, retorts, comebacks, and wisecracks without being cheesy or corny.
Don't worry if you feel like you've never understood humor or how to be funny. I've done the work for you and analyzed everyone from comedy writers to standup comedians and given you step-by-step, complete guidance to use common joke structures in everyday situations. Adaptable to any premise, topic, or setting!
Strategies to instantly be clever and witty and sound like a world-class comedian.
Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and sought-after social skills and conversation coach. He teaches building rapport, and a major part of that is using humor to connect with others - shared moments of laughter are incredible bonding moments, and you'll be able to create them without being "that guy/girl".
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- David G
- 2020-01-22
Great tips; a bit short
Great tips on humour, including all the standard ideas on getting a laugh. This book is not meant for professionals, so I suppose it’s an advantage that it’s so short, but nevertheless I would have liked a little more length.
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- Ronald Kanutski
- 2022-06-18
Strategies and Skills to Be Funny
A very educated explanation of how to deliver humor and well defined strategies were provided. The reader did not deliver with any feeling but more like an educational program.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-07-19
Good book
Good book enjoyed learning templates for comedy, will definitely listen to this book again. Banana
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- R.A.
- 2017-04-28
Failure isn't always funny ...
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I took a chance on this one because of some of the positive reviews posted here that said they had used tactics from this book to some success (& because it was 50% off at the time). Even at 50% off, it wasn't worth it. In fact, I regret the time invested more than the money.
I was nervous right from the start when the author began by trying to explain the importance of humour and the effect it has on us: in the first place, I wouldn't have bought a book on "Laugh Tactics" if I didn't already have an appreciation for the importance and power of humour. But much worse was that his introduction was vapid, general, lacking any novel insight, and not substantiated in any way: "laughter is maybe the strongest human emotion" (I'm don't think laughter *is* an emotion, and although I'm not totally clear on what it would mean to quantify emotions in this way, it seems neither true nor relevant - we can appreciate the value of humour without reifying it).
But I stuck with it!
He wouldn't be the first author to be tempted into making absurd grandiose and unsupported generalizations after investing a lot of time writing on a specific subject.
It seems as though he sees humour as a means to being valued / loved / appreciated / admired / proving his intelligence / showing off etc, i.e. he sees it primarily as means to achieving egocentric ends - not as a way of creating laughter and joy with others, or sharing difficulties and frustrations in a light-hearted way that brings you closer to others.
For me, humour is not a way of impressing others, it's a way of connecting - and although he touches on this tangentially, the underlying message seems to be about building oneself up and proving how clever / smart / different one is (which is a great way of alienating others).
I can only imagine this book being useful to someone who is truly clueless about the very basics of interacting with others (& even then, I'm not sure it would *help* them). It might help a robot, but unless you only respond to every comment and question 100% literally and are not the *least* bit playful in your interactions with others, don't expect to discover any pearls of wisdom here:
e.g. "Is it raining?", "Just enough to ruin your hairdo." ... yup, that's the level you can hope to aspire to with his "expert interpersonal guidance."
If this seems a bit harsh, I think it scares me to imagine people buying into his statements whole-heartedly, trying his ideas out and not even realizing that they weren't succeeding. Throughout most of the book, all I could think was "boy, someone who acted like this would be unbearable to be around and impossible to connect with." But others here seemed to have found some useful ideas.
Personally, I think you'd learn (and enjoy yourself) more from listening to one of the comedy channels on Audible.
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- Victor Di Paglia
- 2017-02-09
Disappointed. Expected more . Want a refund as
Was no where entertaining to me. Really had hopes fot it but felt it lacked the "ooph it needed. I really want a refund
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- Russ R
- 2019-12-24
Painful
The performance was good but the material was weak and not useful. It’s like a disinterested 8’th grader did a book report by reading the Cliff’s notes. I won’t be getting a Patrick King book again.
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- austin harrison
- 2018-03-09
lots of good simple ideas
the first part of the book was a little slow, and I wasn't sure if it was going to be worth buying. But near the middle and the end he goes through a lot of different drills and ideas and examples of specific ways to be funny
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- S. Bagienski
- 2017-06-06
Good content. needs better delivery & summaries
The content seems good and I noticed some of the tactics in social interaction between myself and my friends. As a book, I think it would be great since you can easily flip around to recap the pointers but for an audiobook, it def needs chapter summaries to help remember. Definitely gonna need a lot of practice, which is gonna require lots of daily socializing...which isn't what the book focused on. Also, I agree with the other review that the narrator intonation and delivery could've been better and more extreme, like the book talks about. I still wanna review it. but think it'd be better in book form. Also, I felt like he switched up the examples way too often rather than sticking with the same one to clearly see the difference between techniques
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- Corey Sprandel
- 2017-04-05
Awesomely true
For years I've been talked to about being more professional in the workplace. This book proves that humor and inappropriate comments can make you a rockstar sales person. I have shared a copy with my boss to prove him wrong. Thanks for the good read. And I hate reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-01-23
Good practical advice in the second half
in the first half of the book it's all theory and seems confusing, but the second half has a whole bunch of practical teachings
i would recommend listening to it twice. By the second time, you will understand part 1 better
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- D.White
- 2018-01-29
Updated version
this was an extended version of the authors original book entitled laugh tactics. It was still a good read but not quite what I expected as my intent was for this to be a more in-depth breakdown of the entire strategy of it.
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- Doug
- 2023-01-20
Worthless advice
This guy should have called his book Bore Tactics. I'm not sure why this guy decided to write on book on humor because he is in a class himself as one of the more boring individuals I have encountered. He is entering a realm he has absolutely not qualified to enter, and the only thing funny is that he thought he could pull this off. It would be similar to someone writing a cook book and the only thing they can make is burnt toast. Avoid , avoid, avoid this pile of Bull Duty.
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- Aby Winter
- 2022-09-30
Great - does what they say
It breaks everything down to its components, and shows you how to create your own comedic content on the fly.
The content isn't absurdly basic, it's a perfect starting point for any reasonably intelligent person. Great buy.
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- Amandine
- 2020-08-05
Ideal
Exactement ce que je cherchais! Merci Patrick King! Exactly what I needed ! Very useful audiobook.