A step-by-step guide to comedy writing, with invaluable advice, tools, exercises, interviews, and jokes that will convert anyone into a funnier writer and person.

INSIDE JOKES is a masterclass in a book that teaches you how to write anything funnier, from short humor to essays to psychiatric intake forms.

Each chapter has technical and practical instruction to turn comedy outsiders into insiders and non-funny readers into funny writers.

Included at no extra cost: interviews with professional comedy writers, brainstorming and writing exercises, prompts, and pep talks that will take your writing from nonexistent to shitty first draft to award-deserving.

Part writing guide, creativity bible, and therapy session, INSIDE JOKES tells secrets most writers learn through trial, error, and professional humiliation. It’s for:

• People who are funny already

• People who worry they can never be funny

• Writers who work across genres—fiction, nonfiction, long, short, serious, absurd—or would like to

• Anybody who wants the confidence to make fun of themselves and society

Basically, INSIDE JOKES is The Artist’s Way for the funny soul.

Authors/editors/teachers/perfect 10s Elissa Bassist and Caitlin Kunkel have taught thousands of classes to thousands of students at thousands of institutions,
and here they share their experience, lectures, tricks, replicable processes, and no-fail techniques that make comedy writing accessible for anyone with something
to say.