I feel lucky that I’m in a position where I get to scout new talent for the Funny Business talent agency.  Here are 11 tips and tricks of the trade.

When I started in comedy, if you lived in Michigan and you wanted to work for Funny Business there were two ways in.  You could either hope for a recommendation from the go to person at that point in time or you could trek out to Grand Rapids and hope to dazzle Funny Business owner John Yoder in the three minutes of stage time you’d get on the open mic show at Dr. Grin’s.

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