title: How To Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing (Volume 1)
author:  Scott Dikkers 
description: Scott Dikkers is a founding editor of The Onion and #1 New York Times best-selling author. He co-wrote and edited The Onion's Our Dumb Century, which has sold more than a half-million copies and was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He heads up the "Writing with the Onion" training program at The Second City in Chicago.
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  # Chasing Life
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Brandt Legg
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [![Laughing Rain](../images/00002.jpeg)
  
  
  ![Laughing Rain](../images/00001.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](part0002.html#1T140-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0003.html#2RHM0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0004.html#3Q280-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0005.html#4OIQ0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0006.html#5N3C0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0007.html#6LJU0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0008.html#7K4G0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0009.html#8IL20-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0010.html#9H5K0-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0011.html#AFM60-581dc74c36394e3a94573eaecfd90985)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 10](part0012.html#BE6O0