Recent Posts Tagged With 'instruction'

• Humor Up Monday

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 10:50 in instruction, found humor

  Noodling around the net I found some useful links for your humor edification. Great post by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times regarding telling jokes: Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?” A joke should have the perfectio...

• Taking Your Laugh In Your Hands

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 13:04 in jokes, Marathon, running, safety, experience, garage, fear, instruction, anger management, mistakes, random brilliance, evilgenius

  JJ Kennedy at EvilGenius has a great post today that addresses the issue of poor timing. This prompted me to think about some of my ill-advised attempts at humor. In eighth grade the bus stopped about a block from my home, a fact that will be importa...

• An EvilGenius I Am Not, But I Found One!

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 18:13 in instruction, john kinde, random brilliance, evilgeniustv, humor power, jj kennedy

  As much as I want to believe, and despite what my fawning minions proclaim, I am not the only expert in Using Humor. GASP! Today on TweetGrid (if you are on Twitter and don’t have it. You need it.) I found EvilGeniusTV a truly warped individual...

• Scofflaw, Redux

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 10:41 in texas, lawyers, experience, instruction, attorneys, birthday cards, defensive driving, speeding tickets, will rogers, techniques & principles

  Image via Wikipedia This is a blog about Using Humor, so at the risk of spoiling what mystery there is, here is some of the background that went into the last post Happy Birthday, Scofflaw. Please read it first. We’ll wait…. OK, Ready?...

• How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 13:33 in practice, instruction, talent, carnegie hall, jerry seinfeld, jay leno, chris rock, vaudeville, bill cosby, dave barry, techniques & principles

  Today we address one of those things that is so obvious, I forget it all the time. Practice. That’s the answer to the old vaudeville joke in the title and a key to using humor. Practice. I have been guilty of thinking that new material can make...

• The Pause That Refreshes

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 15:32 in Radio, program, instruction, pause, cigar, anticipation, steven wright, rocky horror, jack benny, mugger, george burns, frankenfurter

  jack Benny mage via Wikipedia Mugger: “Don’t make a move, this is a stick-up! Now, come on. Your money or your life! ………………. Look, bud! I said your money or your life!” Jack Benny: “IR...

• Never Let The Truth Ruin A Good Story

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 09:56 in Barack Obama, truth, instruction, john mccain, scene, lying, brother, camry, v8, captain kangaroo, bob keeshan, techniques & principles

  Image via Wikipedia If you read Truth In Comedy, or my other posts that discuss the importance of truth, this may appear to be a contradiction, but it’s not. Think about when you were a kid and got in trouble for kicking your brother, and yo...

• YHBT - You Had To Be There

  Posted on Sunday December 7th, 2008 at 09:29 in philosophy, truth, experience, instruction, tyler, details, rene descartes, crabs, set-up, fresh fish, kima, techniques & principles

  Recently, Ettarose made a comment about the difficulty in making YHBT humor work later on, after the event. If you have ever ended a story with tears in your eyes from laughing, only to find a blank look from your audience.. and then claimed “y...

• Odd Is In The Details

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 16:47 in Republicans, Democrats, disney, bar, ford, speaking, instruction, details, magicians, libertarians, station wagon, sleight of hand

  Image via Wikipedia Let’s get into detail about our obsession wish details. In Truth in Comedy we discussed how there has to be a germ of truth at the base of all comedy, otherwise it floats away like a kite without a string, or comes crashi...

• Splinters In Your Career

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 10:48 in observation, experience, instruction, past, cosby, bottle rockets, don rickles, damage control, random brilliance, techniques & principles, bunker buster bomb, lucky socks

  Chris at That Guy Over There pointed out that I had forgotten to call “No Backsies,” and followed up this friendly tip by tagging me again for The Seven Things Meme.  I promised some ideas about mining your past in There’s Gold in ...

• No Stinkin’ Strawberries

  Posted on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 14:54 in communication, customer service, Strawberries, retail, instruction, listening, stink, bagel, techniques & principles

  In my last post, Have You Heard The One About...  I said I would modify a story as an example. Here is the original as best I remember it: A man goes to the produce section of a grocery stoe and asks the clerk where the strawberries are located. ...

• Have You Heard The One About…

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 22:01 in observation, experience, speaking, instruction, joke story, random brilliance, techniques & principles, boys life magazine

  In my series on Jury Duty last week, Jaz from Off The Cuff made a comment regarding a story I used in the post Jury Duty - Oh the Drama! His comment was: “That’s an old joke that I have seen on the net for years. This sounds like you saw it y...

• Knowing Where To Hit - The Value of Expertise

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 14:09 in writing, experience, speaking, instruction, judgment, random brilliance, techniques & principles

  I was working this morning in Starbucks, and overheard a conversation between and a young woman and an older one. Possibly a mentor relationship, but what struck me was the older woman’s comments about working with a travel agent: “…...

• Truth in Comedy

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 00:35 in truth, experience, instruction, stealing, gum, department store, stephen wright, techniques & principles

  We were all taught as youngsters that honesty is the best policy. I remember walking through M.E. Moses Department Store when I was five or six years old. I grabbed a piece of Double Bubble chewing gum from a display and popped it into my mouth. It w...

• Laughing at the Enemy

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 09:26 in Political Humor, instruction

  It is an election year. And election years provide a full assortment of humor opportunities. Be careful. You’ve been warned! It is easy to assume that the group you are with is all of a mind on the issues, when actually they are not. The diehar...

• Oh My God! What Have I Done!?!

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 11:21 in experience, presentations, instruction, damage control

  Some call it the “Oh-No” factor. Not to be confused with Yoko Ono’s influence over John Lennon. It is that moment, right after we have said something, when we realize it was a big mistake. A huge mistake. A massive, career destroyin...

• Using Humor in Business - When In Doubt, Leave It Out

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 14:02 in instruction, judgment

  The following is an email circulating before the Olympics in Beijing. WIN 2 TICKETS ALL EXPENSES PAID INCLUDING AIR FARES TO THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING, CHINA. To participate is very easy, just view the attached photo, correctly answer the fol...