And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft
by Mike Sacks

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Summary of And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft

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 this entertaining and inspirational book, you'll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry. You?ll also learn some less useful but equally amusing things, such as:

• How screenwriter Buck Henry came up with the famous ?plastics? line for The Graduate.
• How many times the cops were called on co-writers Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer during the shooting of Borat.
• What David Sedaris thinks of his critics.
• What creator Paul Feig thinks would have happened to the Freaks & Geeks crew if the show had had another season.
• What Jack Handey considers his favorite ?Deep Thoughts.?
• How Todd Hanson and the staff of The Onion managed to face the aftermath of 9/11 with the perfect dose of humor.
• How Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais created the original version of The Office.
• What it?s really like in the writers? room at SNL.

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