A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom by Michael Iapoce

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom by Michael Iapoce

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A detailed analysis of the effective use of humour in business situations such as presentations, seminars and meetings. The book presents the basics of humorous script writing in a clear, step-by-step fashion and reveals methods used by professional comedy writers to inject humour into speeches.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom by Michael Iapoce

Here is the first book to offer detailed advice on the effective use of humour in business situations such as presentations, meetings or seminars. The author is a speech writer who has written for the Chief Executive Officers of AT&T, Xerox, Monsanto, and the Bank of America. He has also written comedy for entertainers such as Rodney Dangerfield. The book presents the basics of writing humorously in a clear, step-by-step fashion, and reveals invaluable tricks of the trade for creating one's own custom-tailored jokes using techniques employed by professional comedy writers. Also provided are short one-line jokes arranged by subject, as well as longer, story-type jokes arranged by the meaning or the point that the story illustrates.
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ISBN 13 9780471636496
ISBN 10 0471636495
Title A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom
Author Michael Iapoce
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 1988-09-13
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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