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,…
Ten Ways the Million Words Challenge Made Me a Better Writer
"It takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills and materials." - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers Tweet "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." John…
Hour a Day Joke Writing Advice: 12 Pro Comics
We asked each of our last 12 comedy pro guests what they'd tell new comedians to do if they had an hour a day to write jokes.Here's a compilation of…
F-Muscle Pod Epi-20: Kev Rogers
Kev Rogers teaches us how the skills of stand-up comedy augment the art of copywriting and vice versa.
F-Muscle Pod Epi-13: UK vs US Comedy & more, Bloom pt2
US vs UK comedy, how rap and rhythm impacts humor, and writing exercises new comedians can use to generate more material.
F-Muscle Pod Epi-12: Finding Your Comic Genius w/ Adam Bloom
British comic Adam Bloom chats about his first gig and how his comedy persona has evolved since then.
F-Muscle Pod Epi-11: Handling Hecklers
Mike arms Chris’s comedy tool belt with tools and tactics to deal with hecklers.
F-Muscle Pod Epi-10: Ten Things Chris Learned in 1st Year Doing Comedy
In the Funny Muscle Pod Epi-10, Chris shares ten things he's learned in his 1st year doing comedy.
Guest Post: 10 Things I Learned in my 1st Year Doing Comedy
Guest article written by Chris Stiffler, a professor of economics, author, and comedy open-mic-er.
F-Muscle Pod Epi-9: How to Warm Up a Cold Crowd
We walk through some tactics on how to get an audience’s attention before springing jokes on them.