Another Must-Have Book Here is book we believe should be on your bookshelf.     Here is the description ripped from the Amazon page:  This book starts with a way to think about comedy and then guides you through concrete strategies for making your work smarter, richer, funnier. Libera covers everything from generating material to revising and performing to fostering social connection through comedy. In the book’s final section, Libera draws from her personal life to make a profound case for why future comedy writers should consider the ethics of their art and their responsibility to their fellow human beings in the audience. Readers won’t just be funnier because of this book—they’ll be better people. https://www.amazon.com/Funnier-New-Theory-Practice-Comedy/dp/0810149362

Anne Libera is absolutely brilliant! She is a master of the art of comedy and the most influential person in my comedy matriculation. I will forever identify as a "Student of Anne." Here's Anne's bio ripped from the Columbia College Chicago website: Anne Libera is the Director of Comedy Studies for the Theater Department where she teaches History and Analysis of Modern Comedy and Comedy Survey I and II. She is Director of Improv Pedagogy for The Second Science Project which studies connections between improvisation and behavioral science. She served as Executive Artistic Director of The Second City Training Centers and Education Programs from 2001 until 2009. She has worked with The Second City since 1986 and has taught in its Training Center since 1991 where her students have included Ashley Nicole Black, Amy Poehler, Kristen Schaal, Jordan Peele and Steven Yeun. Anne has presented on topics in improvisation and comedy at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Code Conference, Chicago Ideas Week, TCG’s annual conference, and guest lectured at the Stanford Business School. Her book, The Second City Almanac of Improvisation is published by Northwestern University Press. For The Second City, she directed The Madness of Curious George and Computer Chips and Salsa, The Second City Goes to War and The Second City Looks at The Windy City as well as touring company productions that have appeared all over The United States. in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vienna, Austria and on multiple cruise chips for NCL. She directed Bunny, Bunny for Illinois Theater Center and Stephen Colbert's one-man show Describing a Circle. She reviewed theater on WGN radio and wrote for the NPR news quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Get. This. Book. https://www.amazon.com/Funnier-New-Theory-Practice-Comedy/dp/0810149362