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    Why Humor Is the Red Bull of Online Teaching Online Learning

    Why Humor Is the Red Bull of Online Teaching

    A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep. —W. H. Auden A teacher’s job is to educate, not entertain. And it’s certainly not…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 7, 2026
    Your Refrigerator Will Tell You When Your Child Has Grown and Flown Parenting

    Your Refrigerator Will Tell You When Your Child Has Grown and Flown

    An earlier version of this essay appeared in Grown and Flown. How will you know your teen has grown and flown? Your refrigerator will tell…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 5, 2026
    Let Students Help You Find the Funny Online Learning

    Let Students Help You Find the Funny

    Designing, building, and teaching an online course is ungodly time-consuming. Asking instructors to also hunt for humorous material can feel like adding another task to…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 4, 2026
    Writers Who “Don’t Do Jokes” Writing Secrets

    Writers Who “Don’t Do Jokes”

    At almost every humor writing workshop I teach, someone eventually says: “I’m a writer. I don’t do jokes.” What they mean is that they write…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    Buying Baby Gear: A Rite of Passage for New Dads Parenting

    Buying Baby Gear: A Rite of Passage for New Dads

    Originally published in Fatherly Discovering you’re going to be a dad is life-altering. But you don’t fully appreciate your newly anointed status as a father-to-be…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    Comedy’s Secret Number: Three Writing Secrets

    Comedy’s Secret Number: Three

    Three may be an odd number in math, but it’s the most important number in comedy. That’s because three creates rhythm. Da-da … da-da ……
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    Humor Needs an Audience Writing Secrets

    Humor Needs an Audience

    Writers wear many hats—author, editor, and harshest critic. That solitary process works for most genres. Except humor. Humor demands an audience. Not just any audience—an…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    The Fastest Way to Kill a Joke Writing Secrets

    The Fastest Way to Kill a Joke

    Every family has one. The relative who tells the world’s longest joke. It’s usually an uncle or grandfather who begins a “funny story” sometime before…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    Why Brevity Is the Secret to Funny Writing Secrets

    Why Brevity Is the Secret to Funny

    I love being a college professor—except for one thing. Student papers. Reading assignments is the worst part of the job. Like many people, college students…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
    When Humor Hurts Learning Online Learning

    When Humor Hurts Learning

    I wrote a bestselling book on humor writing, Comedy Writing Secrets. I know how to target humor, write one-liners, and even perform stand-up comedy. Which…
    Mark Shatz
    Mark ShatzMarch 1, 2026
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