by jmcinnis | Nov 10, 2010 | D. Appropriate Humor
All Women All Day! This week I got a chance to present my “Finding the Funny in Communications” program to a group consisting of all women! They were great! I do a lot of programs in which there are just women, or even just men, in the audience, and I usually never...
by jmcinnis | Nov 1, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
Okay, so I got busy last week and didn’t wrap up the Callbacks section. . . sorry, I had a blast going to the best haunted house, actually FOREST (www.MarkoffsHauntedForest.com), on the planet. . .and didn’t get as much done as I wanted. So, here’s the wrap up. . if...
by jmcinnis | Oct 19, 2010 | B. Research Techniques
Have you ever watched a news show in which they’re interviewing a witness or maybe someone who was just in a disaster? The interviewer says a few words and then waits. The interviewee will then say a word or two, and the interviewer continues to wait. EVENTUALLY the...
by jmcinnis | Oct 15, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8X5SX-KzDE Do you like the look of my new site? It was “fixed” by Mike over at www.theMegaphone.net. if you need your blog brought from the 80’s to the 2010’s, contact him! It’s in front of your face! So...
by jmcinnis | Oct 6, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
I think one thing that hangs many of us up in joke writing for a group that we are speaking to is that we think the jokes have to be SUPER FUNNY. Yes, you want ‘em to get a laugh, but remember that sometimes just mentioning the things that the group is going through,...
