Saturday, May 24, 2025

About the Book

Book: The Dada Base

Author: Allen Brokken

Genre: Comedy

This book is a compliation 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!

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.

MY REVIEW

Oh my! This book would be a great gift for Father’s Day. I laughed so hard at the jokes. The author tackles different subjects with great pun lines. I liked how the jokes are clean and filled with lots of fun times for all. There are many jokes to entertain others and I appreciate how the author shares laughter with us.

We all need a good laugh and this book will provide this. I would never be able to choose my favorite but let me share a few to give you an idea of what is in the book. “ My wife sent me out to HomeGoods to buy a colander. There were so many choices, it just strained my brain!” “What do you call a Bible character that just pulled into the church? A parking Lot!”

Enjoy the different jokes that are sure to be a hit for all the dads who love to tell jokes. Some of them may make you shake your head but will definitely make you smile. Grab a copy and get ready spread joy.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.