Funny Family Facts

I like that TV show Modern Family because it shows just how non-normal most families are. And, depending on how non-non-normal your family is/was, it might have been bad for growing up, but it’s still great for comedy. In my last blog I talked about questions you can...

Networking With The funny

Networking can be BORING . . especially if you’re giving out the same information and asking the same standard (read: dull) questions. When you meet someone, or introduce a new employee or hand an award to someone, what’s the first bit of information we tend to give...

Twist an Idiom

No, not IdioTS, that’s IdioMS. Those aren’t the people  you work with who don’t “get it,” . . .idioms are sayings that we hear  constantl. Things like “a penny saved is a penny earned”  or “a fool and his money are soon parted.” People are familiar with these ...

The HOW of Writing Great Jokes

I’ve talked about asking questions when trying to come up with a killer punch line for your jokes, and one of the best questions is “how.” How would someone do something, how would this happen, how ELSE could you do that, how, how, how. The more you ask the question,...

Getting Help With Joke Writing

What??? You mean you don’t do it all yourself??? Well, yes and no. I DO write my jokes, but sometimes even I need someone else’s perspective. For example, for a long time, in my Finding the Funny in Change program I mentioned that we’re getting too “green,” and all...