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Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian

It"s funny business! Learn leadership & business skills to deal with people & handle life"s curveballs. A professional comedian offers laughs & practical tips. Funny comedian & top keynote speaker Jan McInnis"s unique, fun and useful ideas will help you develop solutions to your own work and life issues. Jan is an established comedy writer. She"s sold material for Jay Leno"s Tonight Show monologue on the Tonight Show as well as many other people, places and groups – radio, TV, syndicated cartoon

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0:54

News Jokes for Thursday, August 31, 2023

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2023/08/31

Jan's Website3 news jokes under 1 minute. I've written and sold a ton of jokes from news stories. Nowadays I just do them for myself because I think they're funny. News stores are an easy way to add humor - just stay away from politics and messy stories like that. Oh, and don't be mean or do stories about catastropies . . . stupid criminals are fair game! For more of Jan's Humor, check out her website, her blog, her podcast or the other many ways that people can listen but don't! LOL. Enjoy your

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04:40

Five Things I Learned From Forensic Files

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2023/08/30

Murder Investigations and Big Business are connected! At least that's what funny motivational speaker, comedian and business humorist Jan McInnis says. Her latest article titled "Five Things I Learned From Forensic Files" shows what business leaders can learn from crime and murder scene investigations. Forensics, not just crime but other types of forensics such as accounting forensics, encompasses diverse fields such as DNA analysis, ballistics, toxicology, and fingerprint identification

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04:28

Making Crap Up! The Secret to My Success

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2022/03/17

It's funny business! Learn leadership & business skills to deal with people & handle life's curveballs. A professional comedian offers laughs & practical tips. Today Jan shares one of the keys of her success! It's funny business! Learn leadership & business skills to deal with people & handle life's curveballs. A professional comedian offers laughs & practical tips. Funny comedian & top keynote speaker Jan McInnis's unique, fun and useful ideas will help you develop solutions to your own work and

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05:06

White Elephants, Cuss Boxes and Cheating Jerry Lewis

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/09/17

Funny comedian & top keynote speaker Jan McInnis's unique, fun and useful ideas will help you develop solutions to your own work and life issues. Jan is an established comedy writer. She's sold material for Jay Leno’s Tonight Show monologue on the Tonight Show as well as many other people, places and groups – radio, TV, syndicated cartoon strips, and even guests on the Jerry Springer show (her parents are proud). For over 25+ years she’s traveled country as a comedian, keynote speaker, and

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0:46

Clean Comedy Live

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2021/01/17

I think I actually had that thought when I was in my marketing job. I talked about using statistics in yesterdays humor tip, so that's an example of how I did it. I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday. If you want to hear stories from my comedy career, check out my short podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. It's called Comedian Stories. I kick off with a joke, tell a short 3 or 4 minute story, and end with a take-away tip from what I learned. All under 5 minutes. That's it for today. Take

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01:04

How to Write Humor

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2021/01/16

And it's the Saturday edition of Finding the Funny, which means I'll be giving you a tip to find the funny yourself! I've written for everyone from the Tonight Show to radio, syndicated cartoon strips, CEO's, companies like airline food vendors. I now travel the country showing organizations how to use humor in business. So here's your 60 second tip. . . Use statistics. They may be boring, but they are your friend in comedy. Make them up or find out ones. If you find out that 60% of people do one

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01:22

Humor Rules, part 5

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2021/01/15

If you watch 20 comics, you may see 20 different approaches to telling a joke. In my act I do 3-4 jokes a minute, and I like the set-up punch style of Rodney Dangerfield and Jay Leno. If you don't like this one, then you'll like this one. But other comics like to tell stories, and other comics like to tell stock jokes that we've all heard, and some comics like to act out and be physical while tell jokes, while others like to be deadpan. I'm talking this week about humor rules, and while there

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01:03

Humor Rules, part 4

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/01/14

I always have a client call before my keynotes and comedy shows. And people try to come up with funny things, instead of just telling me the facts and let ME come up with the funny. And people have actually said things to me such as "make fun of her hair" or "make fun of his divorce." Wow, really? Would you say that to them? We're talking humor rules this week and my tip today sounds obvious, but shockingly it's not. Don't make jokes about something that you wouldn't say to their face. The only

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01:17

Humor Rules, part 3

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2021/01/13

I was performing for a group of 4400 people. It was a dinner event, and they ran out of dinners for 1500 people. It was plated, so basically they miscounted by 1500 meals. AND it was their employee appreciate banquet. As a comedian, I wanted to get onstage, pull the curtain back and say "hey, I found them." I didn't do that – why? Well this week's tips are on humor rules, and my tip today is to watch the sensitive subjects. . . don't take the easy shot. People had stormed out of this dinner, so

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01:24

Humor Rules, Part 2

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2021/01/12

Years ago I got to do comedy in front of 500 blind merchant. I was the only sighted person in the room, so of course as a comedian, the first thing I want to say when I get on stage is "hey, I'm naked!" But I didn't. Why? Okay, maybe it's a bad visual, but also they had put in my contract that they have heard every blind joke on the planet, so I can't do them. Period. They had a GREAT sense of humor, but they've heard all the blind jokes they want to hear. My tips this week are on humor rules, and

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01:16

Humor Rules

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2021/01/11

There are few rules for humor, and in fact, I think the only big rule in comedy is to be funny. You can be dirty, clean, insulting or whatever, but as long as you're funny, you've fulfilled the job requirement. That's the number one rule for the comedy clubs anyway. BUT doubtful most of you will be performing in a comedy club. So, if you want to tell jokes around family, friends, or the office, there really are a few loose rules that you might want to pay attention to. And that's what I'll be

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0:46

Sunday Funnies - Clean Comedy Live

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/01/10

The won custody punchline wasn't the original punchline. My communications tips this week tell you how I get a little information over to you so that you get the joke. Check them out. And if you want to hear short stories from my comedy travels, check out my podcast – Comedian Stories. It's a very short podcast, under 5 minutes. I kick it off with a joke, tell a quick story and end with a take-away tip of what I learned. That's it for today. Take care and enjoy your journey.

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01:21

How to Write Comedy

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/01/09

And it's the Saturday edition of Finding the Funny, which means I'll be giving you a tip to find the funny yourself! I've written for everyone from the Tonight Show to radio, syndicated cartoon strips, CEO's, companies like wart removal cream makers, and even guests on the Jerry Springer show (my parents are proud). I now travel the country showing people how to use humor in business. So here's your 60 second tip – if you want to find the funny in a situation by doing some quick research. It

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01:14

Communication Tips, part 5

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2021/01/08

I talk fast. It's one of the critiques that I've always heard from people. I talk too fast, they can't keep up. This week I'm talking communication tips, and while I really haven't slowed down my talking over the years, I have enunciated better. And that may be the key for us fast talkers. Make sure you are saying every syllable when you're communicating, and people will be able to keep up better. One person told me to tape an E on the floor in front of me so that I could look down and remind

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01:29

Communication Tips, part 4

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2021/01/07

I was having my HVAC unit replaced and 2 guys showed up at my house. They spoke pretty good English, but not 100%. They went up on the roof, and after about 20 minutes one of them came back down stairs and knocked on my door. I answered it and he said "are you alone." Well sort of, maybe. . ."no, I mean nobody is here in the house?" We'll I've kinda got someone coming over in a few minutes. "but right now – no one else here?" Sort of. . .what do you want. "We turn electricity off. Nobody going to

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01:27

Communication Tips, part 3

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2021/01/06

Years ago I was doing a holiday party gig for a major corporation, and I got to the venue an hour early to take a look at the room. The room was set for the thousand people. And what did I see? The tables were in a circle and the stage was in the middle. They wanted me to spin and tell jokes. Really? I was thinking us comedians only need, lights, a mic, and a stage. I never gave thought to the fact that we also need to face the fricking audience! This week I'm talking about communication tips, and

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02:02

Communication Tips, part 2

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2021/01/05

. Getting up at my first open mic was scary, scary, scary. Luckily it went well. But I think what was even scarier than telling jokes on stage was telling my friends that I was doing jokes on stage. I wasn't exactly the class clown, and nobody really told me I should be a comedian. I was funny, but probably not comedian funny. I remember being out with a group of friends when I brought up that I was doing stand-up comedy. Without missing a beat, my friend Mary jumped in and said "I'm funnier than

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01:46

Communication Tips

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2021/01/04

I've been on stage for 30 years. First doing stand-up comedy, and now I do a lot of keynote speaking at conferences. Yet you probably don't know who I am. And that means when I get on stage you don't know that I have 3 siblings, no kids, a cat and a dog, I live in LA, I ride motorcycles, I ski sort-of, I love to bike ride, and I've only had 5 cups of coffee in my life. . . I just don't like the taste. Yet, how in the world can I get information about me, across to you (the audience) quickly so that

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01:13

Sunday Funnies, Clean Comedy Live

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/01/03

There really is such a thing as Heliskiing. This week I talked about finding a way to succeed even if you won't ever be at the top of your field. You need to get creative! I thought this was a creative way to heliski! If you want to hear stories from my comedy career, check out my short podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. It's called Comedian Stories. I kick off with a joke, tell a short 3 or 4 minute story, and end with a take-away tip from what I learned. All under 5 minutes. That's it

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01:05

How to Write Humor

Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian ·

2021/01/02

: And it's the Saturday edition of Finding the Funny, which means I'll be giving you a tip to find the funny yourself! I've written for everyone from the Tonight Show to radio, syndicated cartoon strips, CEO's, companies like wart removal cream makers, and even guests on the Jerry Springer show (my parents are proud). I now travel the country showing organizations how to use humor in business. So here's your 60 second tip. If you want to add quick humor to an email or a memo or something, then

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