Funny on Purpose: The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy: Standup + Improv + Sketch + TV + Writing + Directing + YouTube - Couverture souple

Randazzo, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1452128391 ISBN 13 : 9781452128399

Editeur : Chronicle Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Can you be funny for a living? Former Onion editor Joe Randazzo delivers a realistic insider guide for anyone looking to turn their sense of humor into a vocation. Whether its writing for TV, doing stand-up, or developing a successful YouTube channel, Funny on Purpose explains how it works and how to break in. Along the way, Joe provides tips and guidance, clarifies the role of agents and managers, outlines successful career paths, and solicits advice and stories from the likes of Judd Apatow, Jack Handey, Joan Rivers, Tim & Eric, and more. It takes guts to be a comedian, and it takes smarts to make a living off it. Joe Randazzo's Funny on Purpose gives you the knowledge and inspiration to launch your career in comedy with confidence. How to: write, perform, audition, pitch, illustrate, animate, produce, direct, edit, make a living and navigate legalities. Across all comedy platforms including: stand up, screenwriting, improv, cartoons, TV, film and social media

Biographie de l'auteur

Joe Randazzo is the the former editor of The Onion and creative director of adultswim.com. He has written books, penned pilots for CBS, directed countless web videos, voiced cartoon characters, given lectures, taught classes, and done improv and standup for over ten years. Joe's comedy career took the usual path: he got a degree in Broadcast Journalism while working at a chocolate shop in college, was too scared to do any comedy until his senior year when he won a comedy scholarship, moved to NYC and failed to get any jobs in public radio, worked on The Apprentice and Survivor, left reality TV to work in a fruit basket company, and then got hired as an Assistant Editor with no experience America's Finest News Source. Today, he lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Chronicle Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1452128391
• ISBN 13: 9781452128399
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 335