About the Book
Book: The Dada Base
Author: Allen Brokken
Genre: Comedy
This book is a compilation of the most popular one-liners, head scratchers and total groaners shared on social media by Author Allen Brokken.
Awarded the prestigious Cool Dad Everyone Talks About by his own kids these wholesome jokes are sure to be a hit with your family.
Plus this book contains his complete Telling Jokes and Puns for kids class with free digital access to course videos.
Click here to get your copy!
Author Interview
1. Why did you choose to write non-fiction?
media that I thought fit the bill.
2. How do you balance writing time with other things?
I try to write first thing in the morning before everything starts. So for this I was putting together
jokes first thing in the morning and telling them while I was walking around the neighborhood in
the morning.
3. What types of research do you do?
What people don’t realize is professional comedians say that only 1 in 50 jokes actually land.
So it takes a lot of work to come up with something funny. I read a lot of jokes to find an area
that might work for me on a given day. For example there was a lot of road construction going
on in my neighborood,(sic) so I read a bunch of jokes in that area until I found something that
on it to make a solid joke. I also took a number of comedy classes to learn joke theory and to
practice my craft with others.
I’ve written most of two novels on an airplane on my phone. I don’t know many people that can
say that.
5. What is different about writing non-fiction vs fiction?
Since this is book inclused a course on writing jokes (sic) I had to come up with some solid
theories in my list of jokes so I had to go try to find jokes like the concept I was
explaining.
About the Author
Allen Brokken is a teacher at heart, a husband, and a father most of all. He’s a joyful writer by the abundant grace of God. He began writing the Towers of Light series for his own children to help him illustrate the deep truths of the Bible in an engaging and age-appropriate way. He’s dedicated 15 years of his life to volunteer roles in children’s ministry and youth development. Now that his own children are off to college, he’s sharing his life experiences at home school conferences and through his blog and newsletter at his website. You can get sneak peeks of the ongoing adventures of Lauren, Aiden, and Ethan (plus their pets!) and the #dadjokeoftheday on all the major social media platforms.
More from Allen
When you are an author the industry encourages you to “have a social media presence”. As a new author that’s pretty intimidating because the focus is generally on long form writing which is very different than a 140 character tweet. For the first couple of years I tried different things in the hopes of engaging an audience and nothing seemed to gel.
Then my son introduced me to TikTok. He said, Dad sometimes your jokes are actually funny so why don’t you do them on Tik Tok? I was skeptical at first, but I have been known to be pretty PUN-ny at dinner parties so I tried it.
Given that my office has a lot of Star Wars memorabilia from when I was a kid I landed on telling Star Wars jokes at first. I had very little success only getting between 200 and 1000 view. Then one day I told this joke and my Tik Tok took off.
“So my son was on his way to take his drivers test and I handed him my collectable life size Storm Trooper helmet.”
He looked at me and said, “What’s this for?”
I replied,”So you don’t hit anything.”
If you’re not familiar with Star Wars that joke is funny because Storm Troopers notoriously don’t hit their target. Now I’ve broken the cardinal rule of joke telling, jokes that require the audience to do homework are not good jokes. Which is just one of the many rules of joking around that I learned over the past couple of years.
As my joke list increased I found a group of them that did particularly well online and realized the might make a good joke book. However, I also realized there are a lot of joke books for kids and I wanted to do something different with mine. So I decided I should include my class on telling jokes for kids as a part of the book. So in addition to a collection of funny jokes the book provides a workbook for learning how to tell your own jokes and access to my virtual class for kids on telling jokes and puns.
Blog Stops
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, May 16
Vicky Sluiter, May 17 (Author Interview)
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, May 18
Tell Tale Book Reviews, May 19 (Author Interview)
For Him and My Family, May 19
Locks, Hooks and Books, May 20
Blossoms and Blessings, May 21 (Author Interview)
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, May 22
Stories By Gina, May 23 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, May 24
Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, May 25 (Author Interview)
Guild Master, May 26
A Reader’s Brain, May 27 (Author Interview)
Simple Harvest Reads, May 27
Artistic Nobody, May 28
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, May 29 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
To celebrate his tour, Allen is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
5 comments:
Sounds like a fun read
Thank You for the review.
Marilyn
This looks very intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
This sounds like fun--but I have a feeling my sons would think it was much more fun that I would appreciate!
This book sounds so fun.
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