Five (Of The Many) Reasons Jon Stewart Is Funny

Jon Stewart’s announcement that he’s moving on from the Daily Show was hard to hear, because he really built up the show and created a HUGE following. He got people to actually enjoy the news – that’s tough. I got to work with him 17 years ago, when he first started...

Pinterest and Me and Comedy

I’ve heard so much about this “new” (okay new to ME) social media thing that I finally got serious and checked it out. WAYYY cool. So many things you can do on Pinterest. . . Here’s a quick humor graphic I posted on there. But there are all...

Finding the Funny

Yes that’s the name of my first humor writing book (Finding the Funny Fast), and it’s also the prominent words in a couple of my keynotes (Finding the Funny in Change and Finding the Funny in Communications). But today I want to talk about finding the funny in the...

The Only Rule Of Comedy

I’ve been away from my blog for a while. . my apologies. Turns out writing a book in 3 months causes you to never want to write anything AGAIN. I had a super brain drain that I’m coming out of (check out “Convention Comedian: Stories and Wisdom From Two Decades...

New Book Alert: Convention Comedian

yes I’ve been quite about joke writing for a few months because all my comedy energies have been stuffed into book writing. And now it’s here; my new book titled Convention Comedian: Stories And Wisdom From Two Decades Of Chicken Dinners And Comedy Clubs....

8 uses for comedy writing

Okay, so you still aren’t sold on using comedy? Maybe you think it’s just for comedians, because we know how to do this and you don’t. Or maybe you’re just in too serious of a business to use humor. Okay, but there are many other places you can inject humor. . .here’s...