What to Do When Your Humor Fails
Here is Part 6 of the continuing series about how to be a motivational speaker. In this video, Brad Montgomery discusses adding humor to your presentation. (And if you want to be a paid professional speaker, you’ll need to be funny — if you want to get [...]

I came across this photo from 15 L-O-N-G years ago when I presented a session in corporate entertainment to a business group. We used the “Let’s Make A Deal” theme and the crowd loved it! Although I had just a *little* more hair then, my solid applications using humor in the workplace have more [...]

What was YOUR worst job ever?
I just posted a great story by guest author &  comedian Ron Tite about his worst gig ever. The pain of the situation just cracked me up, and made me want to give the guy a hug. I’ve been there. Comedians suffer like … well, if [...]

IBM liked me. A lot. I did an All Managers Meeting in Austin, Texas. They sent me the comments about my part of their meeting. I’m feelin’ pretty good.   Looking for a comedian speaker?  If IBM is right, you found him.
The only thing weird to me was that 95% of my clients [...]

This cartoon cracked me up — and makes a legitimate point about comedians.
Sure, to be a great comedian or comedian speaker you have to have:
• Great Material
• Great Timing
• Appropriate Topis for Any Given Audience.
But most of all, you have to have confidence.  Audiences know right away when we are psyched-out and insecure.   It [...]

I don’t care what side of the political divide you’re on, Sarah Palin makes for some tasty jokes.
One thing is for certain:  she is funnier and easier to tease than Senator Biden.  As a humoristspeaker and comedian, the most fun would  be had with Obama and Palin winning office together.  Too bad they can’t be [...]

Tim Conway has to be one of the best sketch comedians ever. I grew up watching him, Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman make each other laugh.
What impresses me about this clip is that it holds up. It is still funny today. (And how many shows from the 70s can we say that [...]

When I coach others about how to be funny, I teach saver lines. Basically, these are jokes that you tell after a joke goes bad to “save” the situation.
Johnny Carson was the king of savers. I just found this video….check out the master.

If you are a comedian or speaker and are looking [...]

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How Do You Become a Comedian? In this podcast we join corporate comedian David Glickman as he tells us about his first paid job as a comedian. Believe it [...]

 

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Harvey Korman was one of my favorites.   He died this week, and my heart was broken.
I grew up loving the Carole Burnett Show.  I loved him and Tim Conway.  I loved everything about him.
I often talk of him when I’m teaching comedy and presenting to other speakers.  I talk about how much fun we had [...]