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Hosted by Jan McInnis · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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It's funny business! Learn leadership & business skills to deal with people & handle life's curveballs. A professional comedian offers laughs & practical tips.Funny comedian & top keynote speaker Jan McInnis's unique, fun and useful ideas will help you develop solutions to your own work and life issues.Jan is an established comedy writer. She's sold material for Jay Leno's Tonight Show monologue on the Tonight Show as well as many other people, places and groups – radio, TV, syndicated cartoon strips, and even guests on the Jerry Springer show (her parents are proud). For over 25+ years she's traveled country as a comedian, keynote speaker, and Master of Ceremonies. She's shared her clean comedy with thousands of organizations, and her business tips with thousands of corporations and associations. She's been onstage in front of everyone from the Mayo Clinic to several of the Federal Reserve Banks. Jan is also currently co-starring in the Baby Boomer Comedy Show, touring theatres
Jan McInnis hosts Finding the Funny: Leadership Tips From a Comedian, a education show with 100 episodes published.
Do you get werid reactioms when you tell people your job? Because I do. And not only weird reactions, but weird questions. Comedian isn't common, but that doesn't mean you can't make a great living at it. Here's a quick
You can get PAID time off when working comedy clubs. It's rare but sometimes, the good clubs, will pay you to leave and not be on the show. It sounds like a bad thing, but I always thought it was great. Here's a quick st
Rich People Gigs - You'd think that the more money you make and the nicer the venue, the better the gig? Not always! I've performed at the homes of CEO's of major corporations, and sometimes it's not that great. Here's a
Travel weeks like this will make you question your career choices! Last week's travel was a challenge. Take a listen and hear all the weird things that happened. But I still love my job - it's just some parts of my job t
Travel weeks like this will make you question your career choices! Last week's travel was a challenge. Take a listen and hear all the weird things that happened. But I still love my job - it's just some parts of my job t
Duct fixes a lot of things, including my comedy career. Ok, not really my career, but the transportation getting me to the gigs. Here's a quick, embarrassing story about my use of duct tape. Not really looking my best as
Everybody has advice, but you better not listen to all of it. There is a LOT of bad advice out there; especially when it comes to comedy and entertainment. I've had lots of people give me advice, but I've only taken a li
"There's a lot of waiting around in comedy." A comedian who had been doing this for years gave me this advice during my first year of comedy. And he wasn't kidding. There IS a lot of waiting around, and being bored, befo
Have you ever found yourself having to address a group that you have pretty much nothing in common with? As a comedian and keynote speaker, it happens. Here's a quick story about a time that I had to connect. . .and I di
The San Francisco Comedy Competition is a very prestigious comedy competition. Comics are thrilled when they get invited, and that happened to me. Here's a quick story about my exeperience in the competition, and what I
There are a lot of things that can keep you from the stage. Here's a unique one that happened to me, that I never even considered! It's okay. I made the gig. But I can now add this to a list of ridiculous things that hav
Sometimes people wait to pick an airline seat until they board the plane, and then they want YOURS. People trying to bully others into switching seats with them is a real thing on the airlines. I've had a few good and ba
Getting representation in hollywood or in entertainment in general can be a jungle. There's good and bad advice and you can end up chasing representation for most of your career. Here's a short story about when the holly
When people think of LA, they think of traffic. But they should really think of parking! I've had good and bad parking experiences, especially at LAX since I'm there a lot. Here's a quick story about some of the places I
Traveling the comedy road is tough especially when you have to leave your pets at home. My cat Rover was with me through many good and bad times, and then when I went into comedy, I had to leave her for months at a time.
Toastmasters helps a lot of people with their speaking. I've never used them, but I did give a speech at their conference once that was wonderful AND got me into trouble! Know the rules of what you're going into before y
Timing in comedy, and especially Hollywood is super helpful. Joke timing makes the joke work, and when you have good timing on meeting people in Hollywood, it helps your career. Here's a story about two times Hollywood T
What are the differences in black and white comedians and the audiences they draw? I had an interesting experience opening for DL Hughly. He was a huge star and I was an open mic comic. It didn't go well for me. Here's t
How have I stayed in the comedy profession, made a great living at it while also NOT being famous? Well it's called reinvention and I've done it a lot! Here's a quick story on reinventing myself from one thing to the oth
Who jumps off a cruise ship on PURPOSE? Performing comedy on a cruise ship is not my favorite thing. One of my earlier episodes is a scary story about being stranded in a foreign country before cell phones were super pop
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