Leigh Anne Jasheway 
101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups 

Award-winning comedian Leigh Anne Jasheway has written
101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups specifically to make readers laugh. Laughter provides great health benefits, reducing tension and improving overall mood. Jasheway’s book connects readers of all ages with their inner five-year-old, providing 101 games and activities to increase their laugh quota and decrease the pressure in their stress-o-meters. With Jasheway’s help, readers can improve their emotional health and have a great time doing it.


101 Comedy Games for Children and Grown-Ups includes eight different sections, each geared toward a different genre of comedy. The first section concentrates on introductory games for getting to know fellow participants and familiarizing oneself with the basic rules of comedy. Later chapters introduce games geared toward a specific type of comedy. Each section includes numerous games, which are presented with a general description of the activity, the purpose behind it, a list of supplies (if necessary), helpful hints, and rule variations. Jasheway also provides a key to indicate the target ages for each activity, making it easier to pick the best games for the participating group. Jasheway’s book promises to provide fun times and lots of laughs for anyone that picks it up!

Daftar Isi

Preface

Introduction: Laughing Out Loud: Why A Chuckle and a Snort are So Much Fun

Girls (and Boys and Women and Men) Just Wanna Have Fun

A Banana Peel, a Silly Word, and Two Marshmallows up the Nose: The Basic Ingredients for Funny

Why Everyone Should Be the Class Clown

Chief Court Jester Job Description

Key to the Icons Used in the Games

The Games: Finding Your Inner Funny

Cracking the Ice

What’s Funny About Me

Hello! And You Are?

Faking It

Funny Audition

Silly Non-Handshakes

Voice-overs

Follow the Body Part

Fractured Clichés

Words are Funny

Let’s Get Physical

Funny Faces

Stuck on You

Duck, Duck, Moose

Silly Shambles

Body Switch

Mirror Mirror

The Eyes Have It

Bigger/Smaller

Funny Cheers

Machine

Bad Exercise Instructor

Hop to It

Stuck in…

So You Think You Can’t Dance

Comedy Writing

Who’s That Knocking?

Riddle Me This

That’s So Cliché

Read My Bumper

The Stories My Bumper Can Tell

I am Spam; Spam I Am

The Group Poetry Society

Weird Holidays, Weird Cards

Then This Happened

Rent My Bedroom/Don’t Get Personal

Funny Fortune Cookies

It Was So Funny…How Funny Was It?

Word Up

Why Ask ‘Why’?

What Does Webster Know?

You Ought to Have a Motto

Insert Caption Here

Five-Word Funny

Top Ten Reasons to Do a Top-Ten List

Dear Sir or Madam

First Line/Last Line

Unfinished Business

Half the Script

Rewrite It Funny

Stand-Up Comedy

Entrances and Exits

Sound Off

You’re Quite a Character

Impress Me

Court Gestures

Split Personality

Catchphrases

Save Me

Sketch Comedy

Infomercial

Fairy Tale Mix-Up

Gone Country

What Are You Doing Here?

Third Time’s a Charm

Bad Museum Tour

Who Wants to Be a Game Show Host?

It’s Not Magic

A Day in the Life of a Vampire

Fast and Funny Movies

Funny Scary Stories

Video Game Game

Improv Comedy

This to That

Well, That’s Unexpected

I’m Sorry, But…

Weird Thing in the Closet

Remember When You…

Odd Patient/Bad Therapist

Hey! Can You Lend Me a Hand?

Interview with a Fairy Tale Character

Teach a Blank to Blank

My Lips are Sealed

Opposites Stuck in an Elevator

Two Words/Ten Words

Movie Character in Another Movie

Musical Comedy

Too Fast Sing-along

Parody, Sweet Parody

Singin’ in the Blank

Rap the Menu

The ‘I Love You’ Song

Whose National Anthem is That?

Prop Comedy

In My Country This Is…

Dress Me!

Model/Photographer

Can I Get a Patent?

Wiggin’ Out

Moustaches and Tiaras

Now What?

Human Props

See the Prop; Be the Prop

Head Puppet Theater

How Did This Get Here?

Prop Story

Clowning Around

Tribute to Jonathan Winters

Tech Comedy (Bonus Games)

Sound Effects

Photo Bombing

Talking Tom Cat App

Mouth Off App

Cartoon It!

Lights, Camera, Action

Alpha List of Games

Tentang Penulis

Leigh Anne Jasheway says that, after she discovered her own inner comedian, she became ‘a happier, healthier, saner, and more fun person to be around.’ Now she is a stand-up comic, stress management and humor expert, and comedy writer and instructor who was awarded the Erma Bombeck Award for Humor Writing in 2003 and who organizes a comedy benefit every spring. Jasheway has been teaching comedy for over 20 years and has written several books. Her work has also appeared in various anthologies, including the
Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She lives in Eugene, OR.