Jason Peck, is an award-winning English humorist, actor and comedian based in Chicago, IL. As a comedian, he performed stand-up on the London comedy circuit, worked as an improviser, wrote and performed material for Newsrevue and contributed material to The Treason Show.
Jason Peck
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Aug 23
Public Speaking… Badly
What follows it is a bit of a rant about public speaking, for that I apologize, but it’s here because I needed to get it off my chest and stick up for all those who think situations like this are representative of all public speakers. They’re not. I was in a temporary office job late …
Jul 30
my thoughts on jokes
As you probably know by now I think it’s important for humorous speakers to be able to handle joke stories or street jokes, if you prefer. Essentially jokes stories are ones that people tell you on the street. Or at work, down the pub, etc. In the comedy world a lot of people see joke-smiths …
Jul 29
street joke delivery
Okay, following on from my last post about editing joke stories, here’s my edited version of the selected street joke: A little girl puts her hand up and says: a cold is contagious Teacher’s like: “well done. Anybody else?” A little boy puts his hand up (hand goes up): “yawning is contagious” “Excellent”. Then Little …
Jul 19
The street joke editing process…
After my last post on joke stories, here comes the fun part. You’re gonna edit your street joke down. Don’t feel that you’re not qualified. You are don’t worry. As long as you can speak and paraphrase you’re gonna be fine at editing a street joke, or joke story if you prefer. A word of …
Jul 19
Short Funny Jokes: The Selection process…
So if you’ve been following along with these last couple of posts about joke stories, you’ve probably got the main joke books from Thats Comedy by now and you probably want to try out one of the gags. Before I continue let me just say if you’re an experienced comedian or comedy writer reading this …
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