by jmcinnis | Nov 25, 2016 | C. Humor Delivery
by jmcinnis | Dec 5, 2015 | C. Humor Delivery
In my line of work, there’s a lot of cold calling. Sure I get work through agents and bureaus, but the majority of my work i get through “dialing for dollars.” And while you may not need to make cold calls to bring in an income, you still will need...
by jmcinnis | Jul 20, 2012 | C. Humor Delivery
There aren’t many hard and fast rules in comedy, but one comedy rule you can’t get around is that comedy is subjective. . . everyone has a different idea of what’s funny and what’s not. For example, a friend of mine just had a liver transplant. He’s okay, but the told...
by jmcinnis | Mar 23, 2012 | C. Humor Delivery
So you’ve worked and worked on some killer material. Great! But you’ve got to REMEMBER the joke in order to, well, get people to laugh. I have a couple of memory techniques that I use. Say it out loud FAST. Run through your jokes fast, so that you can get them down to...
by jmcinnis | Feb 27, 2012 | C. Humor Delivery
Okay, I’m not too keen on Improv comedy. Maybe because I spend too much time writing jokes, or maybe it was my experience with an Improv comedy troupe years ago. I was doing a show at a comedy club, and the Improv troupe who was going on ahead of me took up the entire...
by jmcinnis | Aug 23, 2010 | A. Humor Writing, C. Humor Delivery, D. Appropriate Humor, Funny Jokes
One very quick way to come up with some humor on the spot is to use adages and/or familiar wording and then twist it. There are tons of adages – you know, sage advice like “when it rains it pours” or “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it’s probably a...
