Different folks have different tastes in things like music, art and theater.  But a clean and clever comedian appeals to just about everyone.  When in doubt, hire a comedian.

COMEDIAN
"Comics will go anywhere.  We visit spanking new cookie cutter suburbs and tired old river towns.  We explore dusty mining communities in the Rocky Mountains and beachfront boardwalks on the Carolina coast. We see towns that have lost their purpose; where every other building is boarded up and fading signs advertise products and services that are no longer available.  And then we hit the next town up the road, where there's a Blockbuster Video, a Boston Chicken, and a discount computer outlet.  The lawns are mowed, the cars are new --  you've driven 100 years in just 20 miles.'

One week you've been hired to play a comedy club for five nights; the next week you've got some corporate shows spread out between three different cities and three different states. You stay in every kind of hotel imaginable; from three-room suites with kitchenettes to odd little fishing motels with no cable TV and a handmade ashtray.'

"Entertainers call it "The Road" and it's an addicting place.  You head blindly off to places you've never been, to entertain people you've never seen, with no way to know what to expect. The crowd may be five or five thousand people.  You'll find out when you get there -- and you can't wait.'

"But It's all water under the bridge the next day. You check out of your hotel, you gas up the car and you go see what's waiting around the next bend in the road."

-- Paul Frisbie, Chicago, 2004

PUBLIC SPEAKER
Standup comedy gives you communications skills that ordinary public speakers can't match.  For example, Paul Frisbie was recently hired to speak at the Bureau of Land Management's Internet conference in Phoenix, and people were still shaking his hand the next day -- at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.  Needless to say, he found that enormously satisfying.

Frisbie's topic at the Phoenix conference was web site content.  His mission, in a nutshell, was to tell about 300 regional managers how to build web sites that wouldn't bore people to death.  Frisbie has been building web sites and writing copy for them since the days when HTML was still coded in Notepad.

The audience laughed and clapped the whole time.  It's probably safe to say that the presentation caught them by surprise.  Your ordinary Internet speaker wouldn't know how to present serious information and be entertaining at the same time.  But a professional entertainer doesn't know how to be boring.  If you want a great public speaker, hire a comedian.

Frisbie is hired to speak at conferences for a number of reasons.  He has years of experience working with the communications industry.  He has created everything from billboard campaigns to commercial jingles.  He was an Internet "early adopter," and his first personal web site was featured in the best-seller, Netmarketing.

Frisbie's client list is quite impressive, which inspires program directors to suspect that Frisbie might actually know what he's talking about.  And Frisbie's vast experience as a professional entertainer clinches the deal.  Program directors understand that Frisbie doesn't have it in him to let an audience fall asleep. 

COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
Most companies don't have the budget to keep a top notch copy writer on the staff  -- and that's what outsourcing is for.  Companies have hired Paul Frisbie for help with projects ranging from radio spots and web content to promotional brochures and newsletters. If you've got a communications problem that needs professional attention, please give us a call.

You can currently find "The Chicago River Out Your Window,"  by Paul Frisbie, at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.