Do You Talk Funny?

出版者:BenBella Books

作者:David Nihill

页数:208

出版时间:2016-3-8

价格:$14.95

装帧:平装

isbn号码:9781942952275

具体描述

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change.

In what doesn’t sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be an accomplished comedian called "Irish Dave" for one full year, crashing as many comedy clubs, festivals, and shows as possible. One part of the plan was at least logical: he was already Irish and already called Dave.

In one year, David went from being deathly afraid of public speaking to hosting a business conference, regularly performing stand-up comedy and winning storytelling competitions in front of packed houses. And he did it by learning from some of the best public speakers in the world: stand-up comedians.

Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker shows how the key principles of stand-up comedy can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make you funnier, more interesting, and better looking. (Or at least two of the three.) Whether you are preparing for a business presentation, giving a wedding toast, defending your thesis, raising money from investors, or simply want to take on something you're afraid of, this book will take you from sweaty to stage-ready.

You’ll learn how to:

- Craft a story and content that your audience will want to listen to

- Find the funniest parts of your material and how to get to them faster

- Deal with stage fright

- Master the two most important parts of your performance: timing and delivery

Ten percent of the author's proceeds from this book will go to Arash Bayatmakou via Help Hope Live until he is fully back on his feet and thereafter to one of the many facing the same challenges after suffering a severe spinal cord injury.

作者简介

David Nihill was born in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating with a Master's Degree in Business in 2003, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for the Irish government helping startups expand rapidly. He has been involved with startup companies ever since. David is the Founder of FunnyBizz Conferences, a community conference series helping content creators tap into the power of storytelling, comedy, and improv to create better content. He has performed stand-up comedy at California's leading clubs including Cobbs, the Comedy Store, the Improv and the Punchline even though he strongly denies being a comedian and is well aware most people don't understand his accent. His learning, taken from one year's intensive experiments in comedy, performed on someone from the business community with a huge initial fear of public speaking (i.e. him!) have been featured in Inc. and Forbes, among others. He loves sharks, still dislikes public speaking, and calls San Francisco home when immigration officials permit.

用户评价

坦白说，我最初是冲着“心理学”的角度去关注这本书的。名字虽然看起来轻快，但我感觉它的内核可能非常扎实，涉及的是自我认知和人际接纳的议题。一个“好笑”的人，往往是一个对自己接纳度很高的人，他们不害怕暴露自己的脆弱或古怪之处，并将这些转化为与人连接的桥梁。我非常希望作者能够探讨“真诚”与“表演”之间的微妙平衡——我们是为了取悦他人而刻意制造笑料，还是我们的真实个性自然流露？书中可能会引入依恋理论或自我效能感等心理学术语，来解释为什么有些人天生就更擅长用幽默来化解冲突，而另一些人则常常感到自己格格不入。我设想这本书会引导读者进行深刻的自我反思：你对“好笑”的定义，是否受到了童年经历或社会期待的影响？如果这本书能提供一套工具，帮助我们放下“必须逗乐别人”的包袱，转而拥抱自己独特的、哪怕有点冷门的幽默感，那它就远远超出了书名的承诺，成为了一本疗愈人心的作品。

这本书的书名真是太吸引人了！我是在一个推荐书单里偶然看到它的，当时就被“你说话好笑吗？”这个直白又有点挑衅的标题勾起了强烈的好奇心。我猜想，这本书大概会围绕着幽默的本质、我们是如何感知笑点，以及在不同文化背景下，幽默是如何发挥作用的展开讨论。也许它会深入探讨喜剧表演的技巧，比如铺垫、时机和夸张的艺术，甚至可能涉及神经科学中关于笑声产生机制的研究。我特别期待作者能分享一些关于如何培养个人幽默感的实用建议，毕竟在这个高压力的社会里，能让人会心一笑的能力简直是无价之宝。如果它能提供一些历史案例，比如分析历史上那些伟大的喜剧人物是如何形成他们独特的风格的，那就更棒了。总而言之，我希望它是一本既有学术深度又不失阅读乐趣的佳作，能让我读完后，不仅能更好地理解笑话，还能在日常交流中更自如地运用幽默感，成为一个更受人欢迎的谈话对象。这本书看起来像是一次对人类交流中最微妙、最迷人方面——笑声——的深度探索。

这本书的封面设计简洁却充满力量感，那种用色大胆且字体排版极具现代感的风格，让我立刻觉得这不是一本老生常谈的理论书籍。我推测，这本书可能更侧重于“社交语境下的语言障碍与修复”这一主题，而“好笑”可能只是一个切入点，用来探讨沟通中的障碍物。我希望书中能有大量的真实案例分析，比如那些因为用词不当或文化差异而导致的社交尴尬瞬间，然后作者如何用一种既犀利又充满同情心的方式去剖析这些情景。或许，它会深入探讨“冒犯性幽默”的边界在哪里，以及在日益敏感的公共话语空间中，我们应该如何平衡表达的自由与对他人的尊重。如果能提供一些跨文化交流中关于笑话的“禁区”地图，那这本书的实用价值就太高了。我期待的不是一本教人如何讲段子的书，而是一本关于如何用语言艺术来构建或解构人际关系的深刻洞察。那种读完后，你会开始重新审视自己每一句脱口而出的话语，思考它们可能引发的连锁反应的体验，才是我最渴望从这本书中得到的。

我猜测这本书的视角可能非常聚焦于“技术与交流的未来”。如果作者是科技或媒体领域的专家，那么“你说话好笑吗？”可能是在探讨在人工智能、语音助手和算法驱动的社交媒体时代，人类特有的、难以被量化的幽默感将如何被重新定义和评估。这本书或许会深入研究AI如何学习模仿人类笑话的结构，但却始终无法捕捉到那种“在场感”和“情感共振”。它可能会提出一个发人深省的问题：当我们的交流越来越依赖屏幕和文字时，那些微妙的面部表情、停顿和语气的变化——这些恰恰是幽默的关键——是否正在消亡？我希望作者能提供一些前瞻性的观察，比如未来最好的“脱口秀”表演者是否会是那些能够巧妙地操纵算法推荐，或者反其道而行之，回归到最原始、最即兴的人际互动的人。这本书如果能将幽默这个古老的话题，放在一个极度现代和技术化的背景下去审视，那它的价值将是无可估量的，它会让我们思考，在机器日益智能化的世界里，什么是真正属于“人”的标志。

这本书的标题像是一个充满活力的儿童读物，但如果它的目标读者是成年人，那么我猜想它会采用一种非常后现代、解构主义的写作手法来探讨“语言的失效性”。在这种解读下，“Funny”可能不是指逗乐，而是指“奇怪的”、“出乎意料的”或“荒谬的”。这本书或许会挑战我们对逻辑和常识的依赖，通过分析那些令人捧腹大笑的悖论和荒诞场景，来揭示语言系统本身的局限性。我期待它能引用大量哲学或文学中的“荒诞派”作品，比如卡夫卡或贝克特，来论证在一个充满不确定性的世界里，幽默感（或者说荒谬感）是如何成为我们抵抗虚无的一种有效哲学姿态。它可能不是一本教你如何“变得好笑”的书，而是一本教你如何“容忍世界的荒谬”的书。我希望它的论述是那种层层递进、需要反复咀嚼才能体会出其中深意的风格，让读者在笑声背后，看到更宏大、更深刻的关于存在和意义的讨论。