Finding Your Funny Muscle

How to Create Laughs Like a Pro

De: Mike Lukas

Narrado por: Mike Lukas

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

Reseñas de la Crítica

“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), “Yes And” (co-author), “Getting to Yes, And” (host).

“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 🌟!!

The layout

The chapters where very consecutive. I enjoyed the way he presented his lessons. The order of the program is the way to learn. Mainly for me an ADHD adult HAVER. This makes me nearly impossible to listen to an audible book at normal speed.

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

Love all the tips!

Nothing, the book was what I was looking for. I recommend it. You will too.