by jmcinnis | Nov 20, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
Thanksgiving & Your Crazy Relatives! With Thanksgiving coming up, there is a TON of joke material that will write itself – just the crap that crazy/drunk/oblivious relatives are going to do, will keep you laughing for hours. Well, joking about people isn’t limited...
by jmcinnis | Nov 17, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
So much of what we focus on in joke writing is the punch line, but one way to make a great punch line is coming up with a great set-up line. My first three tips for a great set-up line are to: Make it Short. Bill Cosby can go on forever and ever, but the rest of us...
by jmcinnis | Nov 13, 2010 | Humor Stuff
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the stage. . . Okay, yesterday I did my Finding the Funny in Change humor keynote for a major health care group in Kansas. It went great, but it could have started out horrible since the speaker before me was Kathleen...
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 6, 2010 | Humor Stuff
I sold this over the phone! 3 funny subjects to kick off an awkward conversation So we’re coming up on the holiday season, and you know what that means – lots of business and family holiday parties where you’re stuck in awkward conversations with people you barely...
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 25, 2010 | A. Humor Writing
Soup Bowls can be funny! Sometimes comedy can come from the most mundane of things. I just had a lot of fun with. . .(drum roll please). . SOUP BOWLS! Yeah, I know, not a hilarious topic. But I dragged the funny out of it pretty easily by making it a running theme,...
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,...
