How To Be Funny
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How do you learn to tell the perfect joke? A pastor from Oklahoma wants to spice up his sermons. So we introduce him to Gary Gulman, a New York standup comedian who makes jokes about his clinical depression. The lesson? "Man plans, and God laughs." But only if you nail the delivery.
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| 0:32.2 | at my father's funeral. Really? And then the rabbi went on after me and tried to do some time. |
| 0:40.9 | And I said, rabbi, you never want to follow the headline. |
| 0:45.4 | And that got another laugh. |
| 0:47.2 | I mean, I destroyed at my father's funeral. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to How to. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Charles Duhigg. |
| 0:57.0 | Each week on this show, we talk to listeners like you who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems. |
| 1:04.0 | Like how to withstand pain or how to fire a bad employee or how to find your soulmate. |
| 1:14.6 | Then we track down an expert, and we get their advice, and we see if it helps. |
| 1:20.8 | On today's episode, we're tackling a question that all of us at some point try to answer. |
| 1:22.6 | How to be funny. |
| 1:28.6 | We got interested in this after hearing from this guy in Bartelsville, Oklahoma, named Aaron Kirkpatrick. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm a 35-year-old pastor at a Church of Christ in Oklahoma. |
| 1:45.1 | You know, I get up in front of about 250 people every week to preach, and humor is, I think, a central part of that, or at least I want it to be. |
| 1:49.3 | Aaron wants to know how to be funny, because he thinks that humor and being entertaining, |
| 1:54.7 | it can help him reach more of his congregation. I want people when they show up to enjoy the experience and to engage every part of their emotions, including humor. You know this feeling, right? |
| 1:59.8 | Humor gets people focused on you, |
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