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Category: Comedy & Humor

Featuring stories and audio/visual clips of Robb’s work.

Tip #1 – Making Stone Soup

There will be days when you just don’t feel a bit funny. There will be long hours when you just don’t feel like writing anything at all. Tough. That’s the one thing I claim to have learned as a daily news reporter. […]

Robb Lightfoot, Author-Humorist

Robb lives and works in Northern California. His humor has appeared in regional and national publications, including ANewsCafe.com and The Funny Times. He’s appeared on stage in Reno, and as part of the #virtualerma 2020 stand-up night. Robb’s screenplay, “One Little Indian” […]

Be Brief – Robb’s Rule #4

William Shakespeare, Hamlet Write tight. It\’s tempting to stop here, as a hyperbolic statement of the value of brevity. The best humor sneaks up on you. Taking you on a path and then making a sudden turn, pushing you over the edge […]

Positive Pretending – Robb’s Rule #3

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night We know that fiction writers create their worlds by pretending to be something they’re not. But the reality is, at some point, all writers have to pretend. “Once upon a time” starts all of our stories, because writers […]

Humor Handbook Project

Welcome to the Humor Handbook Project. This project has been a long-time in the making, and will be sharing tips, techniques, and a tad bit of history and theory in a series of handbooks on comedy-writing and performing in its various forms. […]