A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom : Using Humour in Business Speaking

Here is the first book to offer detailed advice on the effective use of humour in business situations such as presentations, meetings or seminars.

The author is a speech writer who has written for the Chief Executive Officers of AT&T, Xerox, Monsanto, and the Bank of America.

He has also written comedy for entertainers such as Rodney Dangerfield.

The book presents the basics of writing humorously in a clear, step-by-step fashion, and reveals invaluable tricks of the trade for creating one's own custom-tailored jokes using techniques employed by professional comedy writers.

Also provided are short one-line jokes arranged by subject, as well as longer, story-type jokes arranged by the meaning or the point that the story illustrates.