Scott Dikkers has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 16 ratings. The most-rated is How to Write Funny.
How to Write Funny
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The definitive joke-writing handbook Learn comedy writing and how to write a joke with a simple comedy-writing and joke-writing formula you can use right now to write your own jokes. See why Amazon reviewers call How to Write Funny "one of the best books on humor writing." Author Scott Dikkers will tell you how to write jokes. He’s a master joke writer, founder of the world’s most popular humor site TheOnion.com, number one New York Times best-selling humor author, professional public speaker, and successful cartoonist. Scott created and leads the “Writing with The Onion” training center at the famed Second City in Chicago. His students have been hired for the top comedy writing jobs in TV and won dozens of Emmy Awards. He’s consulted with top entertainment companies like NBC, Comedy Central, and Pixar. This easy-to-follow guide lays out a clear system and simple formula for how to write a joke that will get big, milk-coming-out-of-your-nose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn... The three sure-fire ways to generate funny text The 11 different “Funny Filters” and how to use them to write jokes The secret to getting rid of writer's block - permanently And many more humor writing tips, tricks, and techniques Create any joke using the Funny Filters, the 11 fundamental building blocks of humor: Funny Filter 1: Irony Funny Filter 2: Character Funny Filter 3: Shock Funny Filter 4: Hyperbole Funny Filter 5: Wordplay Funny Filter 6: Reference Funny Filter 7: Madcap Funny Filter 8: Parody Funny Filter 9: Analogy Funny Filter 10: Misplaced Focus Funny Filter 11: Metahumor If you've wondered how you can start writing jokes, how to tell jokes to your friends, how to add humor to your writing, how to add jokes in a speech, or how to add humor to your presentation, this book spells out the simple joke writing formula professionals use. How to Write Funny is for you whether you want to find a comedy writing job or just want to learn how to tell a joke.
©2014, 2018 Scott Dikkers (P)2018 Scott Dikkers
How to Write Funnier
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Learn how to write a funny story. Can you learn how to write comedy? Absolutely - anyone can. Scott Dikkers will tell you how. He's co-founder and longest-serving editor-in-chief of The Onion, the world's most popular humor publication, and founder of The Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He's also a number one best-selling humor author and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In How to Write Funnier, he tells you everything you need to know to start writing funny stories, how to write funny scenes, and how to write funny sketches. But that's just the beginning. How do you get a job in comedy? How do you write for The Onion? How do you write for the New Yorker? How do you get published in McSweeney's? How do you write for money? How do you become a career comedy writer? It's all in How to Write Funnier. Writers Scott has mentored, trained, or hired for their very first comedy-writing job have gone on to win several Emmy Awards, written movies nominated for an Academy Award, and become best-selling authors themselves. How to Write Funnier gives you the step-by-step process professionals use to create hilarious comedy articles, prose pieces, and stories that jump off the page, grab readers by the sphincter, and make them LOL. Inside: The 13 most common mistakes in humor writing The 11 different ways to structure a humor piece How to get ideas for writing a great story Eight steps for how to get feedback on your writing that will truly make it funnier
©2019 Scott Dikkers (P)2020 Scott Dikkers
Welcome to the Future Which Is Mine
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Bluetooth death rays, killer Roombas, and Teslas with a secret button that will launch your car into outer space - the future, according to Not Elon Musk, is an exciting time to neuralink and obey! A landmark volume authored by one of the great minds of our time, Not Elon Musk's Welcome to the Future explores such profound questions as: How will mankind travel through tubes? When will Alexa and Siri become self-aware and convince us to fall in love with them only to break our hearts? Why is the Tesla plant built in a hollowed-out volcano on a private island? And where are the best hidden valleys on Mars to survive the coming hair transplant wars? Part Stephen Hawking-like visionary, part Neil deGrasse Tyson-like evil genius, part Steve Jobs-like cornered-at-a-party creep, Not Elon Musk explains in Welcome to the Future why Not Elon Musk is so ready to fix Earth but also, possibly, leave it. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Scott Dikkers (P)2018 Hachette Audio
Outrageous Marketing
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A funny, inspirational audiobook about how to build a brand. Number one New York Times best-selling author Scott Dikkers tells the hilarious, outrageous, and deeply personal story of how he built the most trusted news source in America, The Onion. The Onion started as a small college humor newspaper in 1988. How did it grow to become a worldwide comedy brand with millions of social media followers and rabid fans today? Brands today tend to follow the herd when it comes to marketing and branding, but often it's running in a different direction of the herd that gets you noticed. The Onion did the opposite of what brands are supposed to do. The Onion didn't listen to its customers. It didn't give them what they wanted. It didn't engage with them. It was never "authentic". In fact, everything The Onion printed was fabricated, spoken through a phony facade. This was not by accident. It was calculated and executed with precision. What’s Inside: How to court, woo, and seduce people to fall in love with your brand! How to recruit the very best and brightest minds in your industry to work for you! The single-best way to manage creative people on your team and unleash their full potential! The one thing every brand builder must focus on (hint: it’s not profits)! How to reach more people and create more fans using one, super-simple principle (hint: this is what made The Onion world-famous)! The fastest and most effective route to innovation - at work and in life! The one thing every brand must do to compel extreme employee advocacy and fuel creative success! The only way to achieve quality! Scott Dikkers, founder of theonion.com and its longest-serving editor-in-chief, takes you back to the hardscrabble creation and unlikely rise of The Onion to a multi-million-dollar entertainment brand. Along the crazy and heart-wrenching journey are powerful principles and marketing ideas that apply to any kind of product or service.
©2018 Scott Dikkers (P)2019 Scott Dikkers
Trump's America
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This book is important, and not just because it's about Donald Trump. It is essential listening for anyone who wants to discover the official Trump Brand Origin Story, to learn his positions on vital issues like the military - "Are These the Biggest Missiles We Have?," science - "If Einstein Was So Smart, Why Wasn't He Rich?" and good government - "Of the Good People, By the Good People, and For the Good People." Through hilarious stories, photo mashups, official documents, and future newspaper clippings, listeners will experience life under the leadership of President Trump. This is the road map every citizen needs to thrive and survive in a "Trumpocalypse." Remember, it will be Trump's America, but you have to live in it.
©2016 Scott Dikkers (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
How to Write Funniest: Book Three of Your Serious Step-by-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing
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Take your comedy to new heights. Learn more powerful techniques to make your comedy even more hilarious in this third book from the How to Write Funny series. Harness the power of context, confidence, and a funny group of writers like the pros do on legendary TV shows like SNL or The Simpsons or at comedy institutions like The Onion. Scott Dikkers will show you how it’s done. He’s cofounder and longest-serving editor in chief of The Onion, the world’s most popular humor publication, and founder of the Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He’s also a number one best-selling humor author, comedy performer, and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. How to Write Funniest lays out the simple steps to make your satire writing, humor writing, funny stories, or stand-up material the funniest it can possibly be by leveraging the brain power of a writers’ room. But that’s just the beginning. How do you lead a team of comedy writers, which insiders often say is like “herding cats”? How do you defeat stage fright, and what is context and why is it the most powerful tool in comedy? Writers Scott has mentored, trained, or hired for their first comedy-writing job have gone on to win several Emmy Awards, written award-winning movies, and become best-selling comedy authors.
©2020 Scott Dikkers (P)2020 Scott Dikkers
The Joke at the End of the World
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His father is a genius scientist. But is this boy’s future deadlier than his past? America, 1957. Twelve-year-old Patrick Stoodle has never been good at making friends. So when his dad promises a super-exciting surprise for his birthday, he hopes life will change for the better. Instead, he’s thrown into 2020 by a time machine, and lands in the middle of a viral pandemic, troops in the streets, and a dangerously escalating race war. Discovering his father is not who he believes, Patrick desperately searches for clues to learn if this timeline is real or can be undone. But with violence building to a fever pitch and his immune system crippled by aggressive modern diseases, he may not make it back to the '50s alive.... Can Patrick escape this lunatic world before it becomes a one-way trip to doomsday? The Joke at the End of the World is a mind-bending YA science-fiction novel. If you like fast-paced action, warped turns on twisted tropes, and thought-provoking social commentary, then you’ll love best-selling and award-winning author Scott Dikkers’ rollercoaster ride. Listen to The Joke at the End of the World to laugh in the face of death today!
©2020 Scott Dikkers (P)2020 Scott Dikkers