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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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…
After ten minutes of heroic axe swinging, toe kicking, shivering, and aggressively not looking down, I was certain I was near the top of the 50-foot ice wall I’d been…
How do you market your comedy brand? How do you get more likes, shares, and followers without resorting to bribery or adopting an emotional support ferret for viral content?The biggest…
