Covering My Butt

When you’re emceeing for a week, and none of the shows are going well, you need to figure out how to cover your butt. Here’s what Jan...

Black Versus White Clubs

Is there a difference in performing in clubs where the audiences is mostly white or mostly black? Jan has performed in all sorts of clubs. Here’s one story about...

Jokes For Leno

Jan has sold tons of comedy material to everyone from the Tonight Show monologue with Jay Leno to greeting cards, syndicated cartoon strips, radio, and even guests on the Jerry Springer Show (her parents are proud!). Here’s how one of those jokes helped her...

1500 People and Me

Jan’s first big group, 1500 people, and a lot riding on the line. She’s being reviewed so she can get into corporate work but the crowd isn’t corporate, it’s more of a bar crowd. And the guy who booked her seems to not want her to do...

A Handful of Comment Cards

Not all comedy shows go great. Sometimes you wind up with a handful of very bad comment cards. Jan had this happen early on in her career. . .it wasn’t...