Conversations with 21 Top Humor WritersThe New Unexpurgated Version!
by Mike Sacks
Recommended by Ben Schwartz
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Humor, Writing, and Fiction.
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories. In...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Humor, Writing, and Fiction.
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Ben Schwartz
“Hmmmmmmm. I don't know if one book helped me with my career but there have been some good ones that were helpful. Save The Cat has an outline in it that is really good when you are starting to write movies. And Here's the kicker was really great too”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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