Review: Surprise!  It's a textbook!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2011
If you're like me, you've always dreamed of doing one perfect night of stand-up comedy, but would never try it.  Danny Murphy did work as a stand-up comic for a while before abandonning it for a steady paycheck.  This book is a compilation of the lessons in stand-up that he learned along the way.The author has obviously taken the study of stand-up comedy seriously.  His book is well organized and well written, peppered with his own anecdotes and quotes from other books about comedy.  Humor 101 was a one-evening read, but it kept my attention throughout.My one pinprick:  Jim Carrey's name was misspelled twice.-- Java Davis (Kindle Book Review, kindlebookreview.com)