Finding Your Funny Muscle

How to Create Laughs Like a Pro

By: Mike Lukas

Narrated by: Mike Lukas

Length: 2 hrs

Publisher's summary

When a joke flops...it hurts.

Nothing beats getting big, genuine laughs from a room full of people.

But when a joke doesn’t land, your confidence takes a hit, and it feels like you’ve let everybody down.

Figuring out why a joke didn't work and trying again is what makes you funnier.

You could try grinding it out on your own, hoping you’ll get lucky.

Or you could get serious about your sense of humor.

With a career spanning a quarter of a century, veteran comedian and comedy coach Mike Lukas (Tonight Show, Comedy Central, Second City, CBS Radio) strips comedy down to the bone.

In Finding Your Funny Muscle, Mike shows you how to “flex” your ideas into funny, original, and relatable humor that gets big laughs—and makes you memorable for the right reasons.

His proven blueprint includes:

• How to develop your own brand of comedy by answering just four questions.
• Five ways a "Comedy Lens" helps you create original punchlines.
• The exact joke framework pro comics have used to build their careers.
• How to come up with A+ material—fast—using the "Humor Blueprint".
• 36 "Humor Heightening Devices" to consistently create fresh material.
• A simple technique to avoid freezing and easily remember your "bits".

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Mike Lukas (P)2023 Mike Lukas

Critic reviews

“The blueprint for how to be funny.” (Charna Halpern, author of Truth in Comedy & Art by Committee)

“Deceptively simple techniques.” (Kelly Leonard, The Second City, exec. VP, president of theatricals; co-author of Yes And; and host of Getting to Yes)

“A must-read for anyone looking to upgrade their humor game.” (Peter McGraw, coauthor of The Humor Code)

Existential crisis inducing

past the title of this review it truly helped me find my comedy lense and for that 5 🌟!!

Simple to understand without being basic.

I've read or heard about the comedy lens several times, I didn't dwell on it, it didn't seem important or the persona/comedy lens seemed all grouped together like something you'll figure out way in the future.
It's explained really well here AND its explained why its useful and how to use it. Can't wait to try it.
I listen to alot of comedy books and this one seems really easy to grasp. If you listened to the UCB handbook on audible, this book gives the same informative vibe. Not as basic as Comedy Bible, but I would think a true beginner would be able to catch on to the ideas easily because it's described really well. It took me several books hearing this different ways to catch on, but this book seems to do a really good breakdown.
Great voice and entertaining voice techniques. Five and a half stars.
Love the 3 cups dropped example. Worth the $ alone if you are new.
I like that women are included alot in this book.
I would read the PDF after you listen, if you think you will listen twice. I am about to finally read the PDF and listen a third time to see what has soaked in my brain, I wish the comedy blueprint was part of the PDF, but I'm buying the next book in this series in print, and I think it will have it there. nice to learn I'm on beginning of level 3, lol. This will help me way into level 4, fingers crossed. -Cristy Le