1096: How to Find More Humor and Fun at Work with Adam Christing
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Adam Christing discusses how anyone can use humor to connect and succeed at work.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why humor matters at work
2) How to bring the fun—even if you aren’t funny
3) The five laugh languages
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— ABOUT ADAM —
Adam Christing brings people together with humor and heart! He is a laughter expert, popular keynote speaker, and award-winning event emcee. Adam has delighted more than two million people across forty-nine of the fifty US states and internationally. He serves as president of CleanComedians.com and is a member of Hollywood’s world-famous Magic Castle. Featured on Harvard Business Review’s IdeaCast and over 100 top podcasts and TV programs, Adam inspires leaders to empower their teams with positive humor and authenticity.
• Book: The Laughter Factor: The 5 Humor Tactics to Link, Lift, and Lead
• Book site: TheLaughterFactor.com
• Quiz: Discover Your Laugh Language
• Website: AdamChristing.com
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's talking today in our culture about the power of vulnerability, and it's for real transparency. |
| 0:15.3 | But if you can add the laughter factor in there, now we're laughing with each other at our own foibles, and we just feel |
| 0:23.6 | way more connected. |
| 0:24.6 | That's Adam Christing. He's an award-winning event MC, popular keynote speaker, president of clean comedians, and the author of The Laughter Factor, the Five Humor Tactics to Link, Lift, and Lead. So you'll learn one, why humor matters at work, two, how to bring the fun, even if you're not funny. And three, the five laugh languages. |
| 0:55.5 | If you'd like to get a quick summary write-up of the actionable takeaways that Adam shared, |
| 0:59.4 | I'd recommend to sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Pete Bikaitis. |
| 1:04.9 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:06.3 | And now, here's Adam. |
| 1:12.2 | Adam, welcome. |
| 1:13.4 | Hey, Pete, great to be with you. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, I'm excited to talk about humor. |
| 1:17.1 | I think we're hopefully going to have a lot of fun, |
| 1:19.0 | a lot of laughs along the way. |
| 1:20.6 | But I'd love it if you could kick us off by sharing, |
| 1:23.0 | since you've been researching this and presenting on this |
| 1:25.5 | and writing about this, |
| 1:27.0 | any intriguing, surprising |
| 1:28.9 | discoveries you've made about humor at work you want to mention right off the bat? |
| 1:35.5 | I think the biggest surprise was just about everybody knows that humor is, well, there's the |
| 1:41.0 | old proverb, right? |
| 1:42.1 | Laughter is the best medicine. |
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