HILARITY - Barry Dougherty Ep 58

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Now everyone likes to laugh and we all love a good joke, BUT what makes some jokes funnier than others? My guest Barry Dougherty has been the head writer for the Friars Club’s Roasts of Betty White, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Black, and Boomer Esiason and Testimonial Dinners for Tom Cruise, Larry King, and Don Rickles.

So I want to know the secrets to being funny and at the end of this Podcast I get Barry to tell his favorite joke, a warning it does involve the Pope and a four letter word.

The New York Friars Club of Roasts can be bought here from Amazon https://tinyurl.com/4wbdjc43

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About Barry Dougherty

Barry Dougherty is the author of ‘How To Do It Standing Up’, ‘The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes’, ‘A Hundred Years; A Million Laughs,’ ‘New York Friars Club Book of Roasts’ and ‘Friars Private Joke File.’ He has been the scriptwriter for the Little Kids Rock organization’s galas honoring Paul Shaffer and Smokey Robinson.

He was the editor of the Friars magazine, the Epistle, and a consultant on the PBS documentaries Treasures of New York: Friars Club, Make ‘Em Laugh and Makers: Women In Comedy. He edited Book ‘Em, written by Tom Cantone the President of Mohegan Sun Entertainment.

Due to his expertise on comedy Barry is featured on the Dean Martin Roasts Companion DVD and was a client on the Syfy channel’s Ghost Hunters, touring the Friars Club’s legendary–and haunted–Manhattan Townhouse.