Update: I failed to mention Traci Skene initially in the article that follows. My bad. A specific article directed at her and her comments about me and my Comedy Evaluator Pro software can be found here.

I feel compelled to respond to the scathing article about me on his stand-up comedy blog called Shecky Magazine concerning my software and reality TV show concept involving comedians (Traci Skene and Brian McKim).

Shecky—well done! I am more than familiar with “controversy” marketing. Trying to ride my stand-up comedy coattails to promote your blog or whatever is NOT a new concept.

But before I respond to Shecky comments, let’s be fair:

Here’s the link to the Shecky Magazine article that lamely attempted to attack my Comedy Evaluator Pro software, my reality TV show concept and to discredit me:

Click Here To Read The  Article That Tried To Discredit Me

First, Shecky—let me say thank you for exposing my software and my concepts to your readers. Once they hit my blog, I knew instantly that your readers were far, far smarter than you thought them to be, mostly because…

I had a drastic increase in sales of my products from traffic generated by your blog post. Whoops!

But let’s get down to some real stand-up comedy business, shall we?

I checked out your stand-up comedy videos on YouTube (Brian McKim). I thought your PAR Score results would be higher…

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Still, I appreciate your “controversy” marketing technique—great strategy to get attention to your blog from MY hard work—work that actually HELPS comedians succeed in this very difficult show business art form.

And I simply cannot deny the traffic you have sent to my blog from yours. Heck, I sure couldn’t get that kind of attention if I requested it (not that I ever would). Thank you very much!

So keep up the good work! Spread the news about how “far out in outer space” my stand-up comedy concepts/software really are. You have it so dialed in. You are my hero!

Again, your blog post is very much appreciated, no matter how caustic it may be.

And God forbid, should you either of you ever want to get funnier yourself…

Naw. Let’s not go there. You surely don’t want that, not with all those TV credits and massive stand-up comedy achievements that have your laurels already resting comfortably on YouTube.

So, just keep your “finger on the pulse”. I always love the “alternative” view from so-called “real” stand-up comedy pros.

And serve up some more of that controversy marketing, will ya? I’m really digging all the traffic… 

Cheers,
Steve Roye
The Professor of Funny for Money

About the Author/Founder of The Stand-up Comedy Professional

Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and author of the content made available in the Comedy Pro Membership Program available on this site.

Over the past decade, Steve has established himself as a leading, globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development, delivery and entertainment business strategies for comedy entertainers as well as speaking professionals.

For more information about Steve, please check out the About The Author section on this site.

It really makes me feel good when people succeed in the stand-up comedy arena.

I want to introduce you to a new comedian who is blazing the stand-up comedy trail in Austin, Texas.

Her name is Lashonda Lester and here is an email I got from her…

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Hi Steve,

My name is Lashonda Lester and I recently purchased some of your ebooks. I’m one of those people that had a really hard time “writing jokes”. I tried out a couple of books, but, naw they weren’t saying what I needed to hear.

In October 2008, I won my first stand-up comedy competition after being absent from the stage almost 8 years. I needed an easier way to prepare my act and found an article you wrote a while ago about what advice NOT to take.

I’m currently competing in the Funniest Person In Austin contest for the first time and I bought the Fast Start Guide to help me prepare and followed your advice exactly as you described it.

Happy to announce that Monday night, I advanced to the semi-finals in May!

Thank you sooo much for the stellar information and resources! I WILL be buying more of your products!

Lashonda Lester
Austin, TX

P.S. I counted 8-10 laughs per minute and I had a 7 minute set

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All I can say Lashonda is…

Thank you for your kind words and…

Don’t stop! Grab all the gusto you can. Or as said in the more colloquial vernacular…

You go girl!

So my question is this to everyone else:

What’s stopping YOU from dominating the stand-up comedy stage?

I will have another success story for you soon from an Australian lad named Mark Gladman who just took the plunge into full time, headlining comedy work after starting in 2005…

So stay tuned.

And get off your butt and go for your dreams!

Cheers,
Steve Roye
The Professor of Funny for Money

P.S. It took all of 13 minutes to grab the #1 position in Google for the term Lashonda Lester comedy with this blog post. So if you have a stand-up comedy success story, you might want to tell me about it.  :-)

About the Author/Founder of The Stand-up Comedy Professional

Steve Roye is the author of the Killer Stand-up Comedy System and author of the content made available in the Comedy Pro Membership Program available on this site.

Over the past decade, Steve has established himself as a leading, globally recognized expert in the field of stand-up comedy material development, delivery and entertainment business strategies for comedy entertainers as well as speaking professionals.

For more information about Steve, please check out the About The Author section on this site.