Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Crowd Work
By Michael Halcomb and Mike Lukas It used to be that when a comedian worked the crowd at a show, it was to stall or to add time, not to…
How to Win Over a Tiny Crowd (Without Crying or Quitting Comedy)
Last night, I "crushed" in front of seven people. Not seventy.Not seventeen.Seven. Humans. In chairs. Facing me. They weren’t even sitting together. One table was celebrating a divorce. One guy…
How to Strengthen Your Corporate Communication Using the Funny Muscle Method
Let’s face it: most corporate communication has the emotional range of a spreadsheet. It’s jargon-laced, over-edited, and about as memorable as the fifth bullet point in a PowerPoint presentation about…
The 10 Worst Things a Standup Comic Can Do (That Aren’t Bombing)
Let’s get something straight: bombing isn’t the worst thing a standup can do. In fact, bombing is like falling off a bike—if you’re not doing it once in a while,…
10 Advanced Standup Comedy Moves (That Separate the Pros from the Tourists)
Making strangers laugh is hard enough.Doing it well enough to become undeniable? That’s next-level.If you want to level up past the open mic trenches, here are 10 advanced standup comedy…
F-Muscle Pod Epi-44: Jimmy Shubert
Jimmy Shubert Nationally touring comedian, actor, and verbal hurricane Jimmy Shubert stops by the Funny Muscle Pod to talk about his legendary career, offer some top-shelf joke-writing advice, and reveal…
GUEST: When Logs Attack – Becoming a Wilderness Sawyer
When Logs Attack... Becoming a Wilderness Sawyer Is 40% Physics, 60% ComedyWe were standing in a circle amongst tall Colorado pine trees, all of us wearing hard hats, long sleeves,…
5 Things to Appreciate About Comedy Open Mics
“Next to the stage, please welcome Mike Lukas.” As I make my way to the unattended microphone, a smattering of applause breaks out in the boozy showroom like maybe I…
GUEST: March Madness and Lost Human Connection
As I walked into the University of New Mexico’s basketball area, The Pit, I noticed something was deeply, cosmically wrong.The Pit has a unique sunken design that makes you walk…
F-Muscle Pod Epi-43: The Business of Comedy
Here at the Funny Muscle Pod, we chat a lot about the skills in crafting jokes, but in this episode, we take a hard turn to the business side of…
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