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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".
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Victor Di Paglia
- 02-09-17
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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- Amazon Customer
- 01-23-19
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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- Jonathan
- 04-15-17
Not really worth it
What did you like best about Laugh Tactics? What did you like least?
This book had SOME good information. Nothing life changing. Book is read by a computer. It is a robot voice and pronounces Los Angeles "Los Angle Es".
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NA
How could the performance have been better?
Having a human read it.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Nope
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- D.White
- 01-29-18
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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- 05-06-18
good overview
decently done. perfect for the beginner, but lacking for someone looking for depth and formulaic structure
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- S. Bagienski
- 06-06-17
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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- Shawn
- 09-30-20
Short and simple
I bought this book because I wanted to be more social and approachable around others. Ive learned a lot and im applying it. Also, my main intent was to be able to talk to girls. I feel like I'm able to be more friendly around my family and friends. I really appreciate the knowledge in this book. I just wished the chapters were labeled so that I could reference back to the things I want to relearn. For example I wanted to go back and find out the authors favorite comedian. I had to rehear unwanted sections and im still trying to find it as of right now.
Now...I've to to reread the whole book just to find out the authors favorite comedian that he mentioned in one of the chapters! At least I've earned my first badge for rehearing a book twice. lol
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- austin harrison
- 03-09-18
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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- Corey Sprandel
- 04-05-17
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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- Theodore Bess
- 03-27-22
great book breaking down talking humor
I really enjoyed the book highly recommend 👌🏿 for anyone looking to do stand up or just add more humor into their lives
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