If you can invest just 137 minutes a day, you have the ability to change your path in life. Based off all those books in the “Self-help” section of the bookstore, here is the all you need to know about setting and achieving goals without all the nonsense. Socrates is famous for saying “Know Thyself, […]
Category: Public Speaking
My Show Turns 4
I have been producing a comedy and improv show called Comedian Deconstruction for four years now. My show has been recognized and won the Best New Comedy Format by the New Zealand Comedy Festival. I can not tell you how much I love this show. I was even more thrilled when my Comedian Deconstruction Show opened […]
Comedy Class Ruined My life
Before Stand Up Comedy… I had a comfortable life and a great job with fantastic pay and a stable schedule. I would get home from work and go to the gym or make a great meal and we would watch TV … shows like Project Runway or Hoarders. Life was good. I had money and […]
Rehearsing and Stand up Comedy
A lot of my comedian friend’s poo poo the Greg Dean book “Step by Step to Stand-up” I found it to be a bit confusing in the process of writing a joke and I am still to this day a Judy Carter school of comedy guy when it comes to joke writing. But Greg […]
Stop Waiting for Fame
I had to share this its from my mentor Judy Carter here is a link to the original post: http://blog.comedyworkshops.com/ OK, you’ve read my book, The Comedy Bible, and you probably have a standup act — or a least a journal full of ideas. So, now what? How do comics get from being “nobody” to […]
Stage Time Continuum
Have you ever seen a new comic show up everywhere, or every time your at an open mic you see this person, sure in the beginning they may not be that great, but then you start to see them evolving, changing and the whole time you are seeing this happen on stage faster that other […]
Comic Timing
I recently decided to learn more about comic timing or as some would call it the delivery. There are two schools of thought when it comes to this: “Either you have it, or you don’t” and the “it can be learned” school of thought. I like everything in my life was not born with this […]