Blog Category: Inspiration

Comedy is brutal. If the audience doesn’t know you, they WILL judge you. That’s true for most things (you can’t walk down the sidewalk in New York City without being judged at least a hundred times). Bonnie said you have to know your audience. I wondered “how though?” I gave an example, “Okay so do […]

Episode 260: Set a Flag on YOUR Thing Is Gary Vaynerchuk a lunatic? This is what I ask myself every time I sit down to interview him. He’s everywhere. He’s constantly spreading a message I strongly believe in: if you don’t choose yourself, someone else will and the results won’t be good. For Gary, “choosing […]

Episode 259: 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do I don’t like writers. Stop writing advice books if you’ve never lived through it. Just. Stop. That’s why I asked Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People DON’T Do” on my podcast (released today). Only someone who has been through horror and pain and […]

Episode 258: Becoming Bart Simpson… How To Find The Artist Inside Of Yourself This is what she did in the middle of an audition for the top TV show in the world at that time, Cheers. The script said, say “blah blah blah” (I forget the words) to Carla, the waitress, and then walk off the […]

Episode 257: TLC – The Biggest Girl Band in American History “Life is tough…and it’s also miraculous.” T-Boz and TLC sold 70 million albums, becoming the bestselling girl band ever in America. Along the way they declared bankruptcy, she battled sickle-cell anemia, the death of one of their bandmates and best friends, a brain tumor, […]

Episode 244: Let Yourself Laugh & Remember One Thing. That is the key to getting better at anything. Geno Bisconte told me, “I kept getting depressed because here I was 20 years later, barely making a living at telling jokes.” We were both sitting at the bar at Standup NY. I was so scared I […]

Episode 240: The Comedians Toolkit – The Best Joke When Patton Oswalt, one of the top comedians over the past several decades, was going through the worst experiences of his life this past year, he wrote an entire post about one joke Gary Gulman made. ONE JOKE. Oswalt starts off: “This is…so perfect.” I like […]