BIG NEWS. The manuscript has now been fully edited and sent in to Unbound.



Publication will be in March 2024. And... the title has changed.



The original intention was to write a book that would reveal the basic writing techniques behind making good comedy, and explore the science that explained why our brains liked certain sorts of jokes, and didn't like other sorts of jokes.



I hoped…

Ahoy!



Manuscript is being fed into the editorial funnel... ​The publishers are activating their book making engines, buying reams of 80gsm typing paper from Smiths, and checking for grotesque libels. Launch imminent...

PUBLICATION DATE will be... MARCH 7th 2024...



Thanks to everyone who has supported the project and for all your enthusiasm.

See you in the Spring!



Joel x

Hello! And thanks to everyone for getting us to 100% Amazing. Feels so good. Now to work!

Since it got such a lovely response, here's a link to the full article on Two Minutes Of The Simpsons, in an easy to read format, with nice illustrations and so on.

https://gralefrit.weebly.com/home/two-minutes-of-the-simpsons

Enjoy!

Joel x

Thanks to everyone who's backed the book so far.

Here, as promised (and in a more easily readable form than the update yesterday) is a deleted chapter from the book, analysing two minutes, and about a dozen jokes, from one episode of the Simpsons, to reveal all the cogs and springs and that.

Hope you enjoy it.



https://gralefrit.weebly.com/home/two-minutes-of-the-simpsons

Thanks to everyone who's supported so far. Please do tweet and pass on the link, if you think your friends might be interested. That's the sort of thing that will get us to the big green GO button.



Anyhow, I've got loads of material that I'm suspecting will hit the cutting room floor.



Thinking that if we get to 85%, I'll start putting some possibly soon-to-be-deleted extracts here. Starting…

Thanks to everyone who's supported so far!



Really feel that we're cresting the fundraising hill now. So exciting.



Please tell your mates, if they'd like This Sort of Thing.



The book is coming together nicely, and contains, I promise, every single thing I can think of on the subject of the mechanics of comedy, propped up with a load of proper boffin-style thinking from people in white coats…