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. […]

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. […]

Blasts From The Past

Coming soon to this blog, short-form humor excerpts from my previously published work. Some of this will be freely offered, other bits will be available for a small fee. These are family-friendly stories, and many of them have nuggets of truth in […]

What the #SFWC19 Presenters Said – A Word Frequency Analysis

Image copyright, 2019, Robb Lightfoot – contact robb@robblightfoot.com I\’m plugging away with my thesis analysis, and here\’s a word-frequency graph drawn from the publicly-available handouts provided by the #SFWC19 presenters. These sort of visual analysis often form the starting point of successive, […]