Flexing Your Funny Muscle: How (and When) to Deliver Laughs Like a Pro

by Mike Lukas

Overview

"This is the blueprint for how to create an act that will be 100% your own." Eddie Clark, comedian & actor (Law & Order, Exiled, Orange Is the New Black, A&E, OPTIMUM ONLINE).

"A must-read for anyone looking to upgrade their humor game." - Peter McGraw, coauthor of The Humor Code.
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Every day is filled with. . . laugh-ortunities.
Making people laugh injects yourself and others with a free shot of endorphins and dopamine.
(or so the science nerds tell us)
In fact, being funny is almost heroic; you're giving folks CPR for their soul.
"You're welcome, humanity."
In book 3 of the Funny Muscle series, veteran comic Mike Lukas (NBC, Comedy Central, CBS Radio, Second City) teaches you how (and when) to deliver laughs like a pro.
That includes:

• Selecting a Delivery Style
  
• What Pro Emcees Do
  
• Handling Hecklers / Haters
  
• How to Get Booked
  
• Making a Cold Crowd Laugh
  
• Best Ways to Screw Up a Joke
  
• Using Humor During a Crisis
  
• A New Comic's First Steps
  
• Mistakes New Comics Make
  
• Adding Humor to Your Writing and Talk
  
• Act Outs
  
• ...and lots more.

Get ready to flex your own Funny Muscle – the laughs will (literally) do you good.

"Lukas really knows what he's talking about." - Brian Stack, Writers Guild Award Winning / Emmy Nominated writer for Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, actor, comedian.

"Mike Lukas is a brilliant, hyper-observant comic." - Rich Talarico, writer/producer Key & Peele, MADtv, SNL, The Tonight Show, Second City.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186137788
Publisher:	Merlin Makes Publishing
Publication date:	08/07/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mike Lukas grew up in Cleveland and was a successful internationally touring comedian and improvisor (NBC, Comedy Central, Second City, CBS Radio, A&E) for twenty-four years before he decided to hang up his clown shoes and give writing a full time go.

A graduate of his own Million Words Challenge and the University of Dayton as well as the training programs at the Second City and iO Theaters in Chicago, Mike is ready to talk comedy with anyone willing to engage in such silliness.

Raised a Browns fan in Cleveland, Mike graduated from U.D. with honors in 1987. Foregoing a rising corporate computing career, Mike spent the next two-and-a-half decades writing, performing, and improvising comedy around the world:

• NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  
• NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  
• Montreal, Chicago, and Aspen Comedy Festivals
  
• National headliner at America’s top comedy clubs
  
• Hosted and co-write The Straight Dope on A&E
  
• Understudy for The Second City’s mainstage, Chicago.
  
• Cast member of The Second City’s mainstage, Las Vegas
  
• Second City National Touring Company (GreenCo)
  
• Co-hosted and produced Crackin’ Up on CBS Radio in Los Angeles
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  Now hammering his keyboard out of Dallas, Mike co-raises his two babies when he’s not pumping out twisted short stories, novels, and non-fiction books that unlock the secrets of the universe.
  Check out the hilarious [FREE] content at FunnyMuscle.com.