The book not only contains the basics of speaking according to manuscript in many very concrete steps, but it also contains 20 exercises in which you learn to improve bad punch lines and thus apply what you have read directly.
Michael Rossié explains step by step why we laugh and how you can easily imitate it. The book contains lots of tips for telling jokes, setting punch lines and reciting bonmots. After all, it is not a question of talent whether you can tell jokes well, but a question of technique and knowledge of all the things you can do wrong. At the end of the book you will find a lot of bad jokes, which the reader can improve for practice.