I'm Not Joking

Chuck Roy is a bear of a comedian. He has appeared on the Ralphie May Filthy Animal Tour and Louie Anderson Presents. In the late 1990s, he achieved unexpected Hollywood success with an appearance on Will & Grace. Chuck teaches comedy at the Community College of Denver and privately through Comedy101.ChuckRoy.com. an Online School For Stand-up Comedy. He has the ambitious goal to change the world with laughter.

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Dan Goldstein is an academic who has been a professor at London Business School and a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute, Columbia University, Yahoo Research, and Microsoft Research. He did a TED talk on decision making that got a couple million views. Before that, he spent a decade performing, writing, directing and producing comedy shows around the world. He nearly left academia for show business on a couple occasions.

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Sommer Browning writes poems, draws comics, and tells jokes. She is the author of EVERYTHING BUT SEX (which is a collection of comics), WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DREAM I HAD (book of prose dream poems), and YOU’RE ON MY PERIOD (a joke book). She works as a librarian in Denver. She is also one of my favorite people on Twitter. Follow her @vagtalk.

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Jeremy is a filmmaker and comedian. He was the creative director of The iO Comedy Network in Chicago. He has improvised on house teams at the UCB and iO Chicago. He and Lilliana Winkworth make up the sketch duo “Todd’s Friend Todd,” And his freelance clients include Nickelodeon, The Jim Henson Company, BuzzFeed, Cards Against Humanity, A&E, and the National Immigrant Justice Center.

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Stefanie Johnson is an associate professor of management at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. She studies the intersection of leadership and diversity. Stefanie has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. In 2016, she was invited to the White House to present her work on diversity in corporate America. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. She has received multiple million dollars in federal and other grant funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring Stefanie’s work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal.

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Jay Mays is a 20-year sales veteran and stand-up comedy producer. From his underdog beginnings in dive bars to being awarded Best Comedy Venue in Miami, Jay has produced live comedy events for some of the biggest names in entertainment including Viacom, Soho House & Live Nation. As co-founder of Pitch Lab, Jay combines the seemingly disparate worlds of sales and comedy to help professionals be more confident, engaging speakers.

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Live episode: A Boulder Colorado native, Hippieman first tried standup in 1980 at the Blue Note—where the Pearl Street Pub now stands. Laid off in 2001, he turned to comedy full-time. His festival credits include Sketchfest, Limestone, Bridgetown and Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival. He was the winner of the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in 2016 and the Laughlin Laugh Festival in 2015. He has appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He joins us today as he retires the name Hippieman.

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Ethan Decker is the Principal at Fractal Strategy. He is a strategic marketing consultant who sits at the intersection of creative arts and brand science. He’s been a strategic planner and market researcher at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, IntegerTBWA, and 72andSunny. His clients have included Domino’s, Hotels.com, P&G, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, Discovery Channel, Nike, Intel, Unilever, and others. Ethan has a BA in sociology and a PhD in urban ecology and human evolution, and he studied complex systems theory at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Lenora is a casting director, TV producer, art curator, and victim’s rights advocate. Vice called her the “Erin Brockovich of stalking.” I met her when she was working on a documentary about flatulence, which partially explains why she is here. She has produced a show called GOLDEN GIRLS GONE WILD which featured erotic depictions of the Golden Girls. And Heeb magazine once called her the top 10 up and coming Jews in comedy.

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Barnet Kellman is the Robin Williams Endowed Chair in Comedy at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he is a Professor of Directing and the founder and Co-Director of USC’s Comedy program. He is even better known for directing theater and television – specializing in comedy. He has received two Emmy awards and seven Emmy nominations for his work directing the television show Murphy Brown.

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