A pretty big milestone today. For the first time, this feels less like a prototype and more like a product. For the last few months, I've been focused on features. Buttons. Screens. Flows. Making sure everything worked. Recently, my focus shifted from features to functionality. Not "What can the app do?" But "How does it make the experience better?" That shift has changed everything. The app is getting smarter, cleaner, faster, and more useful with every iteration. What's most exciting to me isn't the technology. It's the impact. For nearly four decades I've been studying, performing, teaching, testing, and refining what makes people laugh and connect. Now I'm turning those lessons into something anyone can access right from their phone. The idea that someone could be working on a wedding toast, speech, social post, presentation, story, or joke and have access to that knowledge in seconds is still pretty surreal to me. There's still a lot of work to do before launch on Google Play and the App Store. But today felt like one of those moments where you stop and realize: "This is actually becoming real." And that's pretty cool. #AIStartup #SaaS #AIApplications #comedyclass #techstartup

One of my rules when writing humor: If there’s a victim in the joke… and it’s not you… don't say it. Now before comedians come for me… I’m not saying superiority jokes don’t work. They absolutely work. In fact they can be amazing. But I think we laugh for two very different reasons: 1. Superiority We laugh because something looks worse than us. We feel smarter. Safer. Ahead. That can work GREAT… Especially when the target is: ✅ Yourself ✅ A product ✅ A system ✅ A shared frustration Example: Making fun of a flip phone in 2026?Easy. Making fun of PEOPLE who still use flip phones? Now the joke changed. Because maybe they can’t afford something else. Maybe they hate tech. Maybe they’re simplifying their life. Now they became the victim. But if YOU still have a flip phone? Game on. Now we laugh because we recognize something human. Which brings me to the second kind… 2. Commonality We laugh because we recognize ourselves. “That’s me.”“I do that.”“Oh man… I’ve thought that.” That kind of laughter creates connection. And connection creates trust. That’s why my favorite humor usually isn’t making fun of people. It’s showing people they’re not alone. In this video I talk about why I think this matters… …and why the biggest laugh isn’t always the best laugh. Curious where you land on this 👇

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