Celebrate Lit / May 21, 2025

The Dada Base

About the Book The Dada Base

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!

My Thoughts on The Dada Base

My husband and older sons are forever telling Dad jokes. They’re groan-worthy normally. This was just the book to get for them! I was going to hold off and give it to my husband for Father’s Day, but it did not make it that long.

As soon as this book arrived, it was gone. I don’t mean it left the house, I mean that my teen boys had absconded with it. You see, they are forever wanting to outdo their dad jokes with their father. I’m not weighing in here on who is the best these days, but this is a great book if you’re wanting some fun one-liners!

The next stop for this book is my dad. Because even though he’s a grandpa, he’s still a dad joke master as well. And if you haven’t checked out the wonderful Light of Mine series by this author, you’re missing out.

The jokes in this book might make you laugh, they might make you groan, but they’re sure to get retold.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review, nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of The Dada Base

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 from 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 TikTok? I was sceptical 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 views.

Then one day, I told this joke and my TikTok took off.

“So my son was on his way to take his driver’s 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 Stormtroopers notoriously don’t hit their target.

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 realised they might make a good joke book. However, I also realised 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.