This was a vehicle for Joan Davis, a popular 40's movie comedian. It was in a way patterned after I Love Lucy with Joan playing the ditsy wife. Jim Backus was her husband foil but was not humorous in his own right in the way that Desi Arnaz was with his fractured English. Judging form this one episode, which I saw on the "Classic Television" DVD I got from PBS, the show was a bit less frenetic than I Love Lucy and Joan Davis' comedy was more about confusion than ambition, frustration and comic pain. Joan thinks her friends are avoiding her and goes to a Dale Carnegie type to learn how to do what the title is talking about. It turns out they are planning a surprise party for her. She tires all of the things the professor taught her and they all backfire. Then she has a comic dream that briefly approaches an I Love Lucy level of zaniness. Encouraged by the voices of her friends and her husband, she tries to kill herself by various means, all of which backfire, (literally)
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