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Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social and @jamesfolta.com for letting me yap about my book!

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Next weekend (but if you can't make it live, the class and slides will be sent out afterward)—NEW two-hour generative class that teaches a process for coming up with funny ideas. Based on INSIDE JOKES, my upcoming comedy craft book with @elissabassist.bsky.social, get a sneak peek!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Next weekend (but if you can't make it live, the class and slides will be sent out afterward)—NEW two-hour generative class that teaches a process for coming up with funny ideas. Based on INSIDE JOKES, my upcoming comedy craft book with @elissabassist.bsky.social, get a sneak peek!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re looking for someone to give you robust tools and skills in comedy, I’d go with @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social - her workshops are 🔥.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Any class by @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social is worth its weight in gold! Which is a nonsense metaphor for a weightless, virtual class but you get my point. If Caitlin taught classes on metaphors my writing would be better.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Caitlin's classes are super informative and fun, highly recommended!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is the first short humor class I've taught in years—I've refined it down to 2 hours while writing INSIDE JOKES with @elissabassist.bsky.social! On Zoom, you'll get the slides/recording after if you can't make it, learn a repeatable process to brainstorm, draft, and rewrite a short humor piece.

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Added new sites to this starter pack, there are now 30+ humor and satire publications to follow!

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Satire and real fake news lovers! I put together a starter pack of satire sites on here mostly so I can check the feed on it but follow and discover any you haven't yet! go.bsky.app/RBhwLcM

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 20 days ago • 213 comments

The New Yorker is celebrating its 100 year anniversary, and what a time to check out The Neu Jorker, still one of the things I'm proudest to have worked on

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Lady Gaga is back with a banger and I am back on @mcsweeneys.net mama!!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/var...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Got my hand on an early copy of @felipetmedina.bsky.social's AMERICA, LET ME IN and not only am I supplementing my (shamefully poor) knowledge of our immigration system, but I'm laughing my face off at the same time. Out in March, Kirkus approved!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

One spot left! We’ll cover all parts of a proposal, brainstorm comps for each other, start our bios, and talk platform.

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In this week’s Newsletter, @lukevburns.bsky.social & I shared funny writing by Adam Dietz, Troy Doetch, Kate Faigen, Gwendolyn Pryor Boutros, Kate Villa & @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social, in @pointsincase.com @mcsweeneys.net & @havehashad.com! Like short humor? Subscribe here for a weekly humor digest:

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One spot left! We’ll cover all parts of a proposal, brainstorm comps for each other, start our bios, and talk platform.

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I’m reading an early copy of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social’s A PHYSICAL EDUCATION and I’m absolutely loving it—one of the best books I’ve read in a while. Memoir, science writing, fascinating histories of how lifting came to the US. Out in May, preorder now!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

New class just dropped for March! Let's take it back to the very beginning and learn how to actually HAVE, CAPTURE, and FORM funny ideas. We'll use lists, prompts, brainstorming, + comedic tools like exaggeration and parody. You'll leave with a slew of premises and titles for future funny writing:

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

New classes up for Q1! All single sessions, online. The one and only time I'm teaching book proposal, BRAND NEW brainstorming class, and the popular Comedy Writing for Non-Comedians:

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This is coming up! Likely the only time I will teach this class in 2025. Past students have gotten lit agents, sold their books, and even gotten six-figure deals off the proposals they started here. Come join us and start working!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

This is coming up! Likely the only time I will teach this class in 2025. Past students have gotten lit agents, sold their books, and even gotten six-figure deals off the proposals they started here. Come join us and start working!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

New class just dropped for March! Let's take it back to the very beginning and learn how to actually HAVE, CAPTURE, and FORM funny ideas. We'll use lists, prompts, brainstorming, + comedic tools like exaggeration and parody. You'll leave with a slew of premises and titles for future funny writing:

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

We've been counting down our most-read pieces of the year over on @mcsweeneys.net, but I'd like to herald a few others that weren't as wildly popular but still deserve some extra attention.🧵 #McSweeneysHiddenGemsof2024

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

submitted 68 days ago • 64 comments

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

submitted 73 days ago • 481 comments

This just became my most-read newsletter: the people crave holiday mental illness content! Check it out if you’re scrambling today for last minute gifts like I am.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Writer friends, The Museum of Americana Literary Review is OPEN for submissions during December! Send us your prose, poetry, art, and HUMOR. The world is terrible, so send me something funny. We look forward to reading your work! Submission info here: themuseumofamericana.net/submissions/

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

We put together a list of 15 of our favorite pieces from this year! Give them a read, why don’t ya?

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Counterpoint: Do

submitted 86 days ago • 729 comments

This is fast becoming one of my most popular posts, which…says a lot about our psyches!!

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Last class of the year: Comedy Writing for Non-Comedians! Learn to use the tools of comedy to write funnier copy, emails, dating profiles, speeches, and whatever else you need to spice up. Sunday, 12/8 online, but you can also sign up and watch the recording later. Details here:

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Devorah Blachor is a topical satire machine!!! New in @mcsweeneys.net

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Last class of the year: Comedy Writing for Non-Comedians! Learn to use the tools of comedy to write funnier copy, emails, dating profiles, speeches, and whatever else you need to spice up. Sunday, 12/8 online, but you can also sign up and watch the recording later. Details here:

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

No sentence mroe beautiful than the one you thought up while doing something else and forgot to write down.

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments