This guest is Top Shelf Studio’s 2024 recipient of ‘Kindest Guest of the Year’ award!  Pat Treuer is a talented stand-up comedian, a graduate of Second City in Chicago, a corporate salesman who jumped from his 14-year career in the corporate world to creating a new niche during the Covid Pandemic — producing stand-up comedy shows for corporate gigs over Zoom.  His skills, drive, and timing all coalesced into Pat making a full-time living though corporate Zoom shows (usually after he spent the morning shredding the Breckenridge powder). 

 

Pat teaches me about his own challenges of learning by doing.  Both in stand-up, by building his new hour with the addition of new skills on his mixing board, and incorporating this process of learning-by-doing to create a vibrant new act.  We talked about Pat’s dream of one day being on SNL, how that dream led him to pursue classes at Second City in Chicago, how he made the leap to being a full-time comic, and what lessons he has learned from working alongside other veteran comics. 

 

From the politics of the entertainment industry, to extended metaphors, finding ‘why’, & Pat’s reasonable rules for what we should write jokes about — this one is chocked-full!

 

It’s a beautiful life & I am grateful to have had a chance to learn & laugh with Pat. 

Please go follow Pat on instagram @realfunnypat

His website is —realfunnypat.com

 

Go watch @OfTheComics on YouTube — Pat’s 7-part series of stand-up comedy followed by a roundtable with the comics.  It’s mandatory homework for true fans of the show! 

 

FO & BW