1 Mar
You are supremely grateful for this amazing blessing from God, however…
you feel you did not receive a worthy “push present.”
Have you noticed that L.A. celebs (like wild magpies) love shiny objects?
You ate the whole thing.
15 Nov
I loved Gretchen Rubin’s latest book The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too). I listened to the audiobook version – it is fascinating!
The Four Tendencies provides a framework to identify in ourselves – and others – how we are inclined to respond to expectations. The tendencies are Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel.
Recently, I attended a production of Carmen with three friends – a Questioner, an Obliger, and an Upholder. Like most comedic saps, I am a Rebel. […]
21 Jul
TO: Kyle Flicker
General Manager
Misery Productions
Los Angeles, CA
Dear Mr. Flicker,
I’d like to share with you a few bulls*!t excuses I’ve concocted for my impending absences from work.
10 Jun
An Excerpt from the humor book The Misery Manifesto
In the United States, as in most of the sad world, you have weather. You have a variety of weather patterns and temperature changes, as well as four seasons. This isn’t the case in coastal Southern California. As you know, we’re special.
In Los Angeles, we have consistently perfect weather — sunny with temperatures in the seventies. It’s a truly reasonable climate that only the most miserable among us (usually transplanted New Yorkers) find unacceptable. These are the cranks who complain about unending sunshine and clear skies as if it’s a bad thing. “I miss the seasons,” they whine.
However, even for the easy to please, there is an ugly shoofly in The Endless Summer of SoCal . . . and that is the infamous “June Gloom.”
According to Wikipedia (who else?), June Gloom is “a weather pattern that results in cloudy, overcast skies with cool temperatures during the late spring and early summer, most commonly in the month of June.” (This is why it’s not called February Gloom.)
“Low-altitude stratus clouds are formed over the ocean, then transported over the coastal regions by the wind.”
Translation: June Gloom is a month-long period of fog and drizzle up the yahoo where you feel like an abuse victim in a never-ending Bergman movie. I call it “50 Shades of L.A. Gray.”
June Gloom should be a bona fide mental disorder ordained by the American Psychiatric Association. It’s Los Angeles’s version of a seasonal affective disorder.
30 Mar
“Every bad or good thing can be turned into something funny.”
– Daniel (student)
Educator, author, and Certified Laughter Leader Sue Stephenson believes in the power of laughter.
Seriously! She is helping students find their inner comedian. She is bringing fun to the classroom. She is using comedy in schools to promote literacy, well being, and mental health.
is the innovative school program using stand-up comedy that former principal Sue created and co-developed with comedians Kyle Woolven and Marc Hallworth […]
24 Mar
Parody = a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre)
It’s time to have some fun with the self-help industry!
Available exclusively on Amazon http://amzn.to/2n8yaCF
4 Mar
I suppose my purse/bag would be lighter if these items were not in it?
21 Oct
Cover of Cancer Schmancer
Here are a few funny and empowering books, plays, TV series, and movies that promote humor and comedy when battling cancer.
Stand-up comedian and writer survived breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
“Hello, I Have Cancer.” […]
13 Sep
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For Ages 12 and Up
After all, who doesn’t want more laughter in their life?
