1096: How to Find More Humor and Fun at Work with Adam Christing

Pete Mockaitis
Adam, welcome!

Adam Christing
Hey, Pete, great to be with you.

Pete Mockaitis
Well, I’m excited to talk about humor. I think we’re, hopefully, going to have a lot of fun, a lot of laughs along the way. But I’d love it if you could kick us off by sharing, since you’ve been researching this and presenting on this and writing about this, any intriguing, surprising, discoveries you’ve made about humor at work you want to mention right off the bat?

Adam Christing
I think the biggest surprise was just about everybody knows that humor is, well, there’s the old proverb, right, “Laughter is the best medicine.” So, science, as almost everybody knows, is backing that up. Laughter releases endorphins and, literally, relaxes our bodies. It’s just great. It’s good for us.

I knew that would be coming. But what surprised me was, for example, there’s an Oxford study that demonstrates that people who feel safe to play, to laugh, are seeing increases as much as 30% in productivity and collaboration.

And so, I guess the big aha moment for me was what a bridge-builder, how humor creates cohesion in the workplace. And I like to put it this way – humor is a shortcut to trust.

Pete Mockaitis
Tell us more about that, humor is a shortcut to trust.

Adam Christing
Well, there’s a very, very famous standup comedian, you might’ve heard of her, her name was Mother Teresa and, obviously, not a comedian, but a great humanitarian. And I was struck by what she said one time, she said, “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.” And so, sometimes, as business people, as employees, we can feel like, “Oh, I have to entertain other people,” or, “I have to get their attention,” and that can be helpful.

But when we simply change our physiology, and smile, so sometimes I’ll be in front of whether it’s 20 people or even 2000 people, and I will have them stand and put their hands up toward the ceiling, and smile and look up, and I’ll say, “Hey, suddenly, we’re a Pentecostal group.” Everybody laughs. But what I say is, “While you’re looking up, and even if it’s a fake smile on your face, do your best to feel bad,” and people start laughing.

Because when we make the choice to feel good, when we make the choice to smile, even if it feels a little fake, pretty soon other people are smiling and it becomes contagious. And so, a big myth, I think, Pete, is that some people say, “Well, I’m just not funny.” And I don’t know that I’ve ever met a human being who isn’t also a humor being. I think it’s wired into us.

We have a four-month-old grandson, for example, and he can’t talk yet, but he can already smile. He can already laugh. And it’s almost always he doesn’t just sit there and think of a funny thought. It’s because his mom or dad or grandma or grandpa, you know, tickles him a little bit or makes a face or something. But it’s a connector between human beings, and it’s available to all of us.

Pete Mockaitis
Okay. Well, so then I’m curious, in practice, at work, I think people are a little bit perhaps worried about cracking jokes. How do you recommend we go about bringing more laughter, smile, humor goodness into work in a professional way that gives us the benefits without the downsides?

Adam Christing
I think the first step is you have to give yourself permission. I remember I was a senior in college and I was starting to do some funny speaking and competitive speaking on the college circuit. And I went up to my mentor, and I said, “Dr. Lewis, do you think I could make it as a comedian, as an entertainer?” And he said, “I think you can, but what’s more important is whether you think you can.”

And so, it can feel scary. It can make you feel nervous, but if you give yourself permission, and even if you don’t feel confident, if you act confident and deliver, it could even be a dad joke, it might be wearing something that’s a little offbeat that makes people go, “Hey, that’s fun,” but just kind of taking that chance, you will almost always be rewarded.

Here’s the mistake people make. When you tell a joke or try to get someone to laugh is, if they don’t, you can feel this awkward silence, right? And so, it’s tempting for us to say, “Oh, you don’t get it,” or, “I’ll never do that again.” But the secret of the professional, humorous, funny speakers, comedians, is it goes back to what Mark Twain said. He said, “It takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

And so, you can plan for spontaneity. You could lead people on a fun icebreaker, for example, where you take the pressure off yourself. You don’t have to be up there doing a Netflix special and being the funniest person in the room, but you can be the orchestrator of fun.

Pete Mockaitis
Okay. Well, can you give us some examples of winning fun icebreakers?

Adam Christing
Yeah, sometimes it’s as simple as a question. So, I’ll be with probably 150 people next week at a gathering, and my job is to facilitate the fun. And I could get up there and do some standup and I might do a few jokes. But I’ll have them discuss a question around their tables. So, for example, I might say, “I want you, everybody at your table,” say, there are six or eight people at your table, “talk about the first car you ever drove.”

And that’s not a hilarious question, but you would be surprised the answers that people give are warmhearted. They’re fun. Somebody might say, “Well, I actually drove a tractor,” or, “When I was 16, I took dad’s car for a joyride.” And pretty soon, people are telling stories that are not always hilarious, but they’re usually fun and they’re often connectors.

And so, then as the facilitator, I might go around and I might say, “Well, I’ve got a special prize for who had the oldest car or the coolest convertible,” or something, and you keep it interactive. So, I think one of the keys to remember is people never feel bored when you make them feel engaged.

Pete Mockaitis
Well, that’s fun, you’re right. Talking about your first car is not belly laughter, slap your knee,rolling in stitches, but it brings back fond memories in terms of, “Ah, the youth and the freedom,” and there’s just all kinds of some good associations there. And then, it can naturally get one person smiling, reminiscing, because, well, right now, I was a 1989 Chevrolet celebrity, Adam.

Adam Christing
There you go.

Pete Mockaitis
And my mom would always remind me that the top was drooping and, I don’t know how it got loose, but I mean, it was just old and it was drooping. And so, I would screw these little tacks in to try and make it go back up. And it didn’t have a CD or cassette tape player, so I had a little boombox strapped in the passenger seat.

And so, as you asked that question, I’m reliving these memories. I’m smiling and it’s fun. And, again, it’s a little amusing that the ceiling was drooping, that you had a boombox strapped into there. And it’s not laugh-out-loud riotous, but we’re having some fun.

Adam Christing
Yes. By the way, is that car for sale because that sounds like a fun car to drive?

Pete Mockaitis
Oh, no, I gave it away to my high school girlfriend, or college girlfriend. And then later, I just said, “Hey, so whatever happened to the car?” And she was like, sheepish, didn’t want to admit it, she said, “You know, it was beginning to shake when we approached the highway speeds and make this noise. And my mom said, “This is not safe. And so, we parted with it.” And I thought she was hoping to avoid that question her whole life so I don’t know where it ended up.

Adam Christing
See, I love that story. You just made me laugh several times just by telling a real story. And I have found that, sometimes as leaders, for example, or as managers, we have this pressure to seem smart or to be funny or charismatic. But the truth is, we can just elicit, we can draw out from people shared experiences.

So, I have other questions I might ask, whether it’s an audience or a small group, “What’s the first job, or worst job, you ever had?” Same kind of thing happens. People go back to their memory bank and they say, like, for me, personally, I worked as a custodian for one day, and I had this epiphany, like, “Wait a second,” I grew up learning magic tricks. I’m like, “I don’t really want to do this.”

Not that there’s anything wrong at all with being a custodian or maintenance person, but I’m like, “I’m going to start booking myself doing birthday parties.” So, that leads to a story that I can talk about how my first gig was getting paid $5 and all the pizza I could eat. And pretty soon, we’re telling stories and people can relate.

And so, one of the things I tell people is the root word of funny is simply fun. You don’t have to try too hard to be funny, but if you can create a context where people are having fun, you’d probably still get the credit for it as being the leader or orchestrator, but, really, you’re not the star, you’re the cement kind of holding these things together and connecting people.

Pete Mockaitis
Okay. And so, in so doing, I mean, we’re enjoying ourselves and we’re feeling more connected, and that’s just good. Are there any other key benefits that emerge when we do more of this funny, fun, good stuff?

Adam Christing
Well, you’ll notice that it’s really hard to feel disconnected from someone when you’re laughing with them. And it goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, we want to shift from laughing at people, to laughing with them. So, I’m excited to see this mockumentary. You’ve probably heard about “Spinal Tap,” the latest sequel, right?

And I just know that if I go with my wife or daughter or whoever I go with, we’re going to be laughing. And the first thing we’ll do is we’ll look at each other, and we’ll be like, “Oh, my gosh, we’re experiencing it together.” So, sometimes, and this is more and more common with AI, is we’re typing a prompt and we might even say, “Hey, tell me a joke,” and that could be a fun moment.

But it’s not the same as that heart-to-heart connection that you have when you share a laughter. So, I have discovered five humor tactics. I also call them laugh languages. And you just experienced with me, together we experienced one of them, which I call in-jokes.

And so, now that I know about your first car, you know, imagine if I sent you some text, and I said, “Just in case you need these for your next car,” or something like that, now we’ve got this little bond about your car, or if you said, “How’s it going doing the birthday party magic shows?” I’m like, “Oh, he was listening to me.” And we create this shared experience that we can retell, we can relive, and you never had to come up with a funny monologue to tap into the power of inside humor.

Pete Mockaitis
Yeah, understood. Well, let’s hear the other tactics.

Adam Christing
Yeah. Well, the very first one might be the most essential. And it’s simply surprise. And so, for example, my mom is not a professional comedian. I have personally worked with over 100 comedians, some famous ones, like Martin Short, and some people I’ve never heard of, and they’re all great. I was thinking about, “What makes my mom so funny?” It’s just because she will say surprising things, and just this genuineness.

So, it might be as simple as sending someone on their half birthday, like six months before their birthday, you can buy a birthday card that is literally a half card, and people go, “What?” And they open it, it’d say, “Hey, it’s your half birthday.” Well, that tells them a couple of things. One, you’re fun. And, two, you’re thoughtful. You remembered their birthday is six months away. That’s just one example.

Sometimes, in our work, we will go to Walmart, and we’ll buy the $3 bouncy ball that you might give to a preschool kid. And I didn’t even know you could do this, but you can. You can take a Sharpie and write right on the ball, take it to your post office, put postage on it with their address. And so, I’ll say something like, “Hey, Pete, I had a ball in your podcast.” Imagine the mail carrier comes to your home or office and delivers this thing.

I have sometimes sent people very expensive gifts with my logo or swag. Nobody cares about that. But if I make them laugh, if I make them feel like a kid again, if I use the element of surprise, you will automatically put a smile on someone’s face.

Pete Mockaitis
Yes, I’m digging this theme here a lot, in terms of like we reduce the pressure quite a bit as we’re thinking about fun as opposed to dazzling someone with utter hilarity that competes with the greats on their Netflix specials.

Adam Christing
That’s right. Yeah, I think humor, ideally, should take the pressure off even the person sharing it. So, I’ll give you another of the, what I call, laugh languages is wordplay. Some people, the jokes are like, “You belong in a pun-intentiary, and there’s dad jokes.” But I have noticed, like, I’m in airports all the time. Top selling books are dad joke books.

Even Nate Bargatze, who doesn’t do a lot of dad jokes, he does a lot of dad type humor. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we don’t call these, like, weird uncle jokes. It’s because they’re safe, they’re cute. Sometimes they’re so bad, they’re good. So, if you discover that your laugh language is wordplay, just like own it, just be the pun meister, you know, and use clever quotes.

And sometimes you can get away with not even coming up with them yourself. You might say, “Hey, before we start our meeting, I have a Yiddish proverb for you. If you’re looking for a helping hand, there’s one at the end of your arm.” And that’s not going to kill at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, but you might put a smile on somebody’s face and get them kind of chuckling and win them over. So, one of the keys is to not try to be funny in a way that you’re not comfortable with.

Another of the laugh languages is amplify. And this is the person who can take a painful little frustration and just turn it into a five-minute rant or monologue. If you find yourself someone who exaggerates stories, that might be your favorite humor tactic. So, usually what makes you laugh is an indication of the type of humor that’s ideal for you to use.

Pete Mockaitis
Well, you know, you’re bringing back a fond memory. I remember, I was in a studio, they were shooting some video, and we were just kind of hanging out nearby, eating some food. And someone just started playing this, just invented this game. I don’t know where he came up with it. But it was sort of like a knock-knock-who’s-there, someone starts, and the other person responds.

Someone would start with a job, and they’d say, “Oh, you know, I used to work at an ice cream shop.” And then the other person was supposed to reply with, “Why did you quit?” And then, they would put in some kind of a pun related to it, like, “Oh, they made me work Sundaes.”

Adam Christing
Exactly.

Pete Mockaitis
And so, we kind of, “Ha, ha, ha,” you know, it’s kind of cringy.

Adam Christing
Yeah, and then somebody else says, “I decided to split.” And what happens is people go, “Oh, my gosh, what’s the next person going to say?” And so, it creates this anticipation, yeah.

Pete Mockaitis
Yeah. And I remember we just started laughing so hard, we were scolded.

The producer marched up to the room, and said, “Guys, we’re trying to film. You really can’t be laughing that loud.” And so, it was very memorable because none of these jokes were hilarious. And yet, again, there’s that connecting element. We were all in that groove together.

Adam Christing
That’s right. And you felt like it was like this exclusive shared moment. I’ll tell you, I’m not in comedy clubs like I used to be in my younger days, but the best comedy club I’ve ever been to is in Pasadena, California. It’s where, like, Steve Martin and Robin Williams, a lot of famous comedians got their start way back, ‘70s, 1980s, ‘90s. And it’s called the Ice House because, literally, it was a brick building where they would store ice.

And everybody felt, “Why is this club, I get more laughs at this club than down the street?” And it’s because the acoustics in that room, the intimacy, like the laughter was bouncing off the walls. And so, if you find someone on your team laughing about something, have more of that. Dish up more of that. And you’re going to find the laughter bouncing from person to person.

And what happens is, there are certain radio shows or podcasts where they aren’t even professional comedians, but when you listen and you feel like, “They are having such a good time, I want to be part of that party.”

Pete Mockaitis
Absolutely. And can you share the final language, the poke?

Adam Christing
Yes, that is the one. And maybe that’s best to share last because I think it’s the trickiest. And this is the idea of poking fun at yourself and gently teasing other people. And, of course, it can go way off the rails if you get into three P’s that I avoid. Politics, I avoid, any prejudice, and, personally, I avoid profanity. And so, people are like, “Well, what else can you have fun with?”

But if you start with what I call self-effacing humor, I don’t call it self-deprecating because that sounds like you’re having digestion issues, but I call it self-effacing because, if you bring yourself down a couple of pegs, a couple of things happen. Your coworkers go, “Oh, she’s cool. And, even more importantly, I can relate to that.”

So, we find each other’s flops very funny. And as leaders, as colleagues, if we can, this is not making yourself look like an idiot, but it’s just being honest about when you messed up. Like, when I tell people I was once a director of a film, and I cast myself in the film because I’d raised the money. And I tell people, true story, Pete, I say, “My acting was so bad, I got cut out of my own movie.”

And they smile, but they also go, “Oh, I can relate to that because I’ve had failures in my work, in my career or my marriages or with my kids.” And so, suddenly, and this is kind of a corny word, but I still own it. I call it “hawthenticity.” Everyone’s talking today in our culture about the power of vulnerability, and it’s for real, transparency. But if you can add the laughter factor in there, now we’re laughing with each other at our own foibles, and we just feel way more connected.

Pete Mockaitis
Can you give us some additional examples? I guess, like, we probably don’t want to draw attention to the fact that, say, we’re in way over our head, we fundamentally lack the competence required to excel in a given role, although that does happen.

Adam Christing
That could be your last monologue, yeah.

Pete Mockaitis
So, what are some good zones of self-effacing humor?

Adam Christing
Well, sometimes like the story you just told is an example of that, where you just stumbled into something, these guys, where you just couldn’t stop laughing. So, think about times with your family or your friends where you were busting up. And some of those things might not be appropriate in a work setting. And my golden rule is, “If in doubt, leave it out.”

But when you talk about, like, let’s say you’re starting a meeting and it’s running a little bit late. Maybe you tell a story about how you were late to your own wedding, or you were late to some dear person’s funeral, or something that’s kind of personal, but where you’re not the star. You’re kind of the one who flopped. You will likely get people laughing, but also you get people going, “Oh, I can relate to you now.” And so, positive humor just makes us way more approachable.

Now the second part of poke that we haven’t really unpacked yet is it’s still effective to, whatever you want to call it, tease, josh, roast other people, if they feel like you care about them first. So, one time, I was hired to roast 11 executives with a big accounting firm called KPMG. And I spent, like, 20 hours prepping for this thing. But here was my little secret.

I discovered what they’re most loved for each of these, I think, it was 11 different executives. And then I gave that a twist, where they knew I was actually celebrating them, but I was poking them. So, one guy really was a great dresser and everyone knew it. So, if I poked a little fun at his ties or something like that, he was so confident in his look and his attire that it totally worked, and everybody was busting up. And the key was the person I was poking was laughing the hardest.

Pete Mockaitis
Yeah, that’s a real nice twist on the roast there. And I think I’ve seen a couple roasts, and it’s like, I guess this might be fun for the audience, but the person being roasted is like, I don’t know if they’re still friends after this.

Adam Christing
Yeah, it’s not a good sign when you need to bring your attorney to a roast, “Is this a trial?” Yeah. But I do think, maybe a better word than roast would be toasting. So, for example, let’s say you’ve been asked to be best man in a wedding, or something like that. Well, it’s pretty traditional that you might give a toast. And some people, I think, make the mistake of, well, first, they probably drink too much before they speak. But next, they just turn it into a Tom Brady kind of roast. And that’s probably not appropriate.

But what you want to do is find a couple of things everyone loves about the best man, and then have some fun with it. And so, I think it’s important that we feel linked with people before we laugh about them. And once we do that, I can’t tell you what to say because I don’t know the person that you might be toasting or roasting, but before I speak at an event, for example, I want to know, “What are the acronyms that we can all joke about?”

Almost every company has some funky acronym. Like, in a couple of weeks, I’m going to be with the air traffic controllers of like 300 of them in Las Vegas, and they must have 15 different acronyms. And so, I’ll have some fun with them. But, at the same time, I will be affirming the fact that, “Hey, you guys keep us safe and we appreciate it.” And so, I might butcher some and kind of play fish out of water, but I think we listen our way into the best laughter rather than trying to talk our way into it.

Pete Mockaitis
Now, Adam, I guess, I’m wondering, if 300 air traffic controllers are all in the same place at the same time, not directing air traffic, are we going to be in some trouble during this event?

Adam Christing
I will send a memo to you and your listeners so nobody flies that day. No, I thought that same question, but I think it’s great that, I mean, talk about a high-pressure job, right?

But so, for example, this just came to me. I might say, “I came out here on Delta, which turns out stands for ‘Do Every Leg Through Atlanta.’” Now again, at a comedy club, that’s going to bomb, but for this group, they might, “Oh, yeah, we route a lot of flights through Atlanta.” So, it goes back to that kind of inside humor.

Pete Mockaitis
Yes, that’s good. Well, do you have any more guidelines on you? So, “When in doubt, leave it out,” “Avoid the politics, the prejudice, the profanity,” “Be connected before you tease,” “Do more celebrating.” Any other pro tips for preventing us from getting into some trouble?

Adam Christing
Well, here’s a really big tip that I rarely shared. It’s in my book a little bit, but I want to emphasize it. It’s we think and we put this pressure on ourselves, it’s like, “Okay, I want to make everybody laugh with my sales presentation,” or whatever, and that’s great. But if you can laugh at other people’s humor, several awesome things happen.

One, they know you’ve listened to them and you’re affirming them. And so, I think it’s important to not only discover your unique laugh language, but tune into, “How do other people go for laughs? Does she tell hilarious stories? Does he love to give people gifts?” And then enjoy that with them.

And what you’re telling people is like, “You’re awesome. You’re great. And you make me laugh.” And you don’t want to force it. You know, like we’re having a fairly serious dialogue right now, but we’re laughing together and it just feels natural.

Another tip would be, if you do decide to do a joke, and I have plenty of good clean jokes you can pull from, the temptation there, it’s so easy to slip into this, is you tell the punchline and then you step on it. So, for example, there’s one of my favorite comedians of all time, is Steven Wright, and his laugh language clearly is wordplay.

So, he might say a joke like, “I put spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.” But if I were to tell that joke and step on it, I might say, “I put spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone. Ha, ha,” and I put in a nervous laugh, or I say to my listeners, “Oh, you didn’t get it,” or, “I’m not doing that again.” And so, you have to be, like, maybe the greatest talk show host on TV history was Johnny Carson.

When he would tell a joke that didn’t get a laugh, he would just sit with it. And it created this almost delicious awkwardness, and it actually became funnier than the joke. So, after you do share a punchline, pause. It really shows confidence, actually, and you’ll more likely get a laugh, but if you don’t, be okay with that, and then you’ll probably get a laugh anyway.

Pete Mockaitis
All right. Well, Adam, tell me, any other top do’s and don’ts you want to make sure to mention?

Adam Christing
Well, one thing people never think about, I mentioned this a little bit with the Ice House is, I like to say the closer they get, the funnier I get. So, for example, if you’re leading a workshop or even if it’s in a conference room, I’ve noticed this in schools, in churches, people tend to want to sit away from the presenter.

And so, if you can take five minutes before your presentation starts, and pack them in closer. So, what happens is you get this effect of people looking at each other, going, “Oh, this is fun. I’m enjoying it.” And they can laugh together. And so, it does matter how you set up your room. If you’re doing a Zoom, for example, instead of thinking, “I have to entertain 20 people on this Zoom,” pull up one person at a time and have a moment with them. Invite them to partake, partake is a strong word, participate in a icebreaker or do a trivia thing.

One time, I hosted an event, it was heavy-duty stuff about software, and we had a panel and, man, people can just go right to sleep with a panel. So, we turned it into a little bit more of a game show. We covered the same questions that we were going to cover, but by making it fun and interactive, we made the panelists come to life more, and we had the audience feel like, “Oh, this is fun. I can actually sit through this hour-long panel. And, no, it’s not going to be a lecture.” Nobody wants to be lectured.

Pete Mockaitis
Lovely. Thank you. Well, now could you share a favorite quote, something you find inspiring?

Adam Christing
“The meaning of communication is the response you get.”

And so, sometimes we think the meaning of communication is our content, but, really, it’s the reaction to the content. It’s how you make people feel. It’s, “Did you transfer the conviction that you have to someone else?”

Pete Mockaitis
Okay. And a favorite study or experiment or bit of research?

Adam Christing
I am almost a cult follower of a book that was written way back in the 1980s by Robert Cialdini, and it’s been updated many times, and I see you nodding your head as we’re talking here, called Influence. And some of the studies in that book have just blown my mind. The power of social proof, for example. I know I’m being kind of theoretical, but in my business, I’ll give you an example.

Choose clear over clever. So, one time we were mailing a sales letter, basically, to convention planners in Las Vegas, and I thought, I’m going to be so clever, I’m going to say, “Don’t gamble on the entertainment at your next convention.” And because they were going to be in Vegas, I thought that would be so clever.

But we decided, “You know, let’s test that,” and this goes back to the social experiment that Cialdini talks about with social proof is, “Let’s test that.” So, we tested a different headline that said, “Give your group the gift of laughter.” The first one got zero responses. The second one, I think, we booked six clean comedians into these corporate events. Everything else was the same except that headline.

So, I encourage people, whatever area you’re at work is, test things out. Try it. Try a joke. Try a different subject line, even for your email. Test things out. You will feel less nervous and more comfortable. This is one of the big secrets, Pete, for standup comedians. Like, somebody like Seinfeld isn’t going to just do an hour-long special like, say, on HBO.

He’s going to take it on the road first. He’s going to road test it. He’s going to see, “This is getting a laugh. This isn’t.” And so, whatever arena you’re in with work is test things, experiment, and the social proof that you’ll get from the reaction tells you, “Okay, I want to do more of that.”

Pete Mockaitis
And a favorite tool?

Adam Christing
So, another book that influenced me big time is called Rocket Fuel. And so, I think the tool would be 3D questions I ask myself, “Should I do this? Should I ditch it? Should I delegate it?”

Pete Mockaitis
All right. And a favorite habit?

Adam Christing
I’m discovering that the exercise that you’ll do is the exercise that you enjoy. And so, for me, and I live in Western North Carolina, where it can suddenly rain or it can suddenly be sunny, but the habit is to go out and play disc golf now, because I don’t know what’s going to change with the weather. So, I guess the answer would be to choose fun exercise as soon as you can do it every day.

Pete Mockaitis
All right. And is there a key sound bite that you’re known for, an Adam original that really resonates with folks and they quote back to you often?

Adam Christing
“It doesn’t have to be filthy to be funny.”

Pete Mockaitis
And if folks want to learn more or get in touch, where would you point them?

Adam Christing
I would send them to TheLaughterFactor.com. Don’t forget the word “the.” And, by the way, if they go to TheLaughterFactor.com, in four minutes, they can discover their unique laugh language because there’s a fun quiz that you can take and it’ll show you more about your way of being funny.

Pete Mockaitis
All right. And do you have a final challenge or call to action for folks looking to be awesome at their jobs?

Adam Christing
Yeah, I think, sometimes we’re so pressured to, “Hey, get more productive. Be more collaborative.” And I experienced this myself in my comedy work, it’s like, I have to stop and go, “Wait. I know I can make people laugh on stage, for example, but I need to make sure I’m receiving what I’m giving out.” And so, that would be my challenge, my encouragement to your listeners, is make sure you’re also receiving what you’re giving.

Pete Mockaitis
All right. Adam, thank you.

Adam Christing
I’ve had a great time. And, hey, if you ever get that car back, I want a ride.

Pete Mockaitis
Okay, yeah.