Sitemap - 2025 - Funny How: Letters to a Young Comedian

The real problem with calling "The Bear" a comedy

A podcast on PR and branding in comedy

The worst sin you can commit as a comedian

What brocasters learn from years of touring the country

The power of showing up

Jordan Peele's advice for overcoming writer's block

Commit to the bit

The #1 question to ask yourself when writing jokes

Great YouTube deep dive on rhythm and comedy

10 Good Things: What Vonnegut and Picasso can teach comedians

Musings: On networking, roasts, Colbert, and tribalism

What Nate Bargatze reminds himself every time he goes onstage

Ways to make it funny

Doing standup at an event NOT at a comedy club

10 Good Things: Steve Martin, Bill Burr, Mike Birbiglia, etc.

It's a numbers game

Jim Gaffigan on structuring a set

Transcripts of standup specials

This is the dirt

A manifesto for comedians

How joke premises are like clickbait

Loose like Pryor or tight like Carlin?

Clean is hard

Roy Wood Jr. on the wrong lesson to take from Dave Chappelle

10 Good Things: Gulman book recs, Burr’s artistic evolution, etc.

New York comedy beast

Stop comparing yourself to other people

What a comedy club GM wishes comedians knew

On provoking, honesty, and bombing gracefully

Bad math is funny

Promoting isn’t thirsty

15 smart standup comedy thoughts

Mike Birbiglia on his worst bomb

Why comedians have successful marriages

Conan O’Brien on Mark Twain and the purpose of comedy

Smart social media strategies for comedians

”Since when did comedy become so right wing?”

Ari Shaffir on the YouTube era, specials vs. clips, and dealing with hecklers

10 Good Things: On time, Rodney, material vs. content, and "wash cloth comedy"

Bill Burr on what he learned from Richard Pryor

Give an elevator pitch for your jokes (and other "nitty gritty" standup advice)

Vagueness is the enemy

Are comedians modern day philosophers?

Pretend the camera is your best friend

Reactions to Shane Gillis' SNL monologue

Podcasting all about comedy, BOLO, and more

20 tips for new comics from an open mic producer

Judd Apatow on the power of overdelivering and stakes

How George Carlin influenced Roy Wood Jr.

10 Good Things from Scorsese, Jeselnik, Barstool, Colbert, and more

If you have fun, they have fun

Reddit's home for discussing the art of standup comedy

What you can learn from doing an impression

7 tips from Bill Burr on doing "push-pull" comedy

How to do standup the NYC way

Name what's happening in the room

Garry Shandling on the purpose of material

10 Good Things: How being a comedian is like being a bullfighter and more

Death and laughter

Comedians talking bombing onstage

Watch Dave Attell (and others) develop new material

Singing gets laughs

Dave Chappelle and the curse of charisma

Make it alive and vital

Top 5 Rubesletter comedy deep dives of the past year

End with the punchline

10 Good Things: How Keith Richards is like a comedian, gatekeepers, 30 Rock, etc.

How to be a foreign comedian in America

My new standup special just went live on YouTube

The top "Funny How" newsletters of 2024

How to craft an awards show monologue

10 Good Things: Seinfeld, Burr, Triumph on trauma, and more