Private Comedy Show for Company Events, Holiday Parties, Conferences, and Offsites.
Give your people an event worth showing up for.
Work Is a Joke is an interactive comedy experience about modern work, and we bring it to your people. Your employees, customers, or leaders take the mic for quick, funny sets about work life, the whole room plays along, and people leave actually knowing each other. It's the event your team talks about on Monday, for the right reasons.
Why Teams Book Work Is a Joke
For teams that have had a hard year.
Layoffs, reorgs, return-to-office, endless change. Laughing about it together does more for morale than another trust fall.
People participate, not just watch.
Volunteers do one-minute sets. Everyone else plays along from their seats. No one is forced on stage.
Leaders get human.
Executives on stage telling jokes about their own jobs is the fastest way we know to close the distance between the corner office and everyone else.
HR-safe by design.
We laugh at the absurdity of work, not at your company, your coworkers, or anyone in the room. No roasting, no punching down.
Built by a community and HR pro.
Jessie Jakes spent five years building a global HR community and designs events for a living, so she knows what lands in a corporate room and what doesn't.
Holiday Parties
Skip the ugly sweater contest. A Work Is a Joke holiday show gives your team a year-end laugh about everything they survived together, and it works whether or not people drink. Great for company-wide parties, department celebrations, and remote teams getting together in person.
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Company Events and All-Hands
An all-hands, anniversary, kickoff, or team celebration that people look forward to. We can build the show around your company's inside jokes, your big wins, and the moments everyone lived through this year.
Conferences, Summits, and Customer Events
The evening session attendees remember. Work Is a Joke works as an opening night event, a closing party, an alternative to a traditional keynote, or a side-car event alongside your conference program, and it gets strangers mingling far better than an open bar. It also works as a customer appreciation or client event that feels like a night out, not a sales dinner. Think corporate hospitality, just way more interesting: no awkward hosted dinner, no sales presentation, no scanning badges.
Offsites and Leadership Retreats
Get your leadership team out of strategy mode for an evening. Performing a one-minute set in front of colleagues builds more trust than another personality assessment, and it gives the team a shared story they'll retell for years.
How Booking Works
Book a 30-minute call.
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Tell us about your event, your people, and what you want them to feel.
We design your show.
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Format, segments, and any company-specific material.
We prep your performers.
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Volunteers and executives get coaching so nobody freezes.
Showtime.
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You enjoy your own event for once.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. The show is built to be HR-safe. We joke about the absurdity of modern work, not about your company or anyone in the room.
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No. Performing is fully voluntary. Most people participate from their seats.
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No. The magic is real people from your organization. Jessie hosts and keeps the show moving.
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Public shows run about two hours. Private shows can be shaped to fit your agenda. [CONFIRM]
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Yes. We're based in Kansas City and have run shows in Oakland, with more cities coming.
Let's Make Your Next Event the One People Talk About
Tell us about your event and we'll tell you how we'd make it memorable.