Tim’s clean, professional, character-charged comedy quickly found him opening for funny stand-up superstars such as Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Wright early in his comedy career, and to this day. You might catch Tim on a Saturday night at one of his favorite comedy clubs, Chicago’s famed downtown Zanies, or hear him featured on XM or Sirius clean comedy channels, or perhaps on WGN Radio in Chicago with Steve Cochran some afternoon. It is these experiences, his razor sharp improv skills from his Second City training and his ability to quickly and easily customize inventive content for different audiences that have made Tim one of the most requested corporate entertainers in the country today.

Tim Clue is a communication consultant and professional comedian with over 20 years of experience who serves the special entertainment needs of the corporate community. He has humored at events for Boeing, Microsoft, Paine Webber and countless others, creating and performing original business humor and corporate comedy. With his familiarity of entertaining all levels of industry – from the Fortune 100 to trade associations to educational conferences – Tim is more than simply a top comedian. He can create fun, humorous business content and provide presentation solutions for all types of corporate environments and industry functions. Tim’s focus on humor will energize your team building event, engage your retreat group, lend style to your seminar, and entertain your clients. Tim’s presentation style integrates his unique blend of business experience and humor, resulting in unforgettable messages and memorable meetings for your team. Whether it’s educational, motivational, inspirational, or even technical, Tim will make your content pop off the PowerPoint, invigorating your messages with high impact humor and fun interactive techniques. As Tim likes to say, “If you want them to listen, tell them. If you want them to remember, make them laugh.”

While Tim enjoys wielding his hilarious wit for clients such as Motorola, Ketel One Vodka, and John Deere, he is also proud of his professional writing and directing accomplishments. Tim co-founded his production company Chicago Sitcom to develop works for stage, film and TV. He has already written and directed two sitcom pilots, produced one, and his play Leaving Iowa ran for a year in Chicago to rave reviews, and has toured Minneapolis, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and will make its West Coast debut in the Spring of ‘08. He next play, Standing in Mattoon, is also currently in production.

"I like creating memorable, clean humor for my audience,” says Tim. “I don’t care if it’s for the stage, two dozen IT directors or 1,200 accountants. I will find a way to climb inside their heads and do what I do best: help people forget about their problems and focus on mine."

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Tim Clue is a multi-faceted comic talent from Chicago who uses keen observational skills theatrically performed to create more than just jokes. His small town life and blue collar roots provide the comic undertow to this character-charged humor that tracks a man who's stumbling through the minefield of life. Tim conveys simple life lessons, bringing his audience along with him on his humble journey as he creates the type of humor that speaks to the core of our human experience.

The Ripple Effect 
Learning to make positive waves by understanding your own Ripple Affect can bring harmony to any communication circle. Ripple Affect is a collection of tiny little pebbles tossed into the ocean of communication that go unnoticed until they turn into giant waves. And it is only in “crunch time” that we lose track of what we are sending out. Tim's humorous and thought-provoking message and advice help people begin to examine their crunch time style by looking at the small ripples that left unexamined can turn small ripples into a Tsunami of unintended messages. 

Six Keys to Better Public Speaking
Stop trying to picture everyone in his or her underwear. It doesn’t work, and it’s not appealing. Instead, listen and learn six incredibly effective and simple techniques that will make you a better speaker. Whatever level you are, this hour will give you specific actions steps that will make you a more confident and complete speaker. This speech is a highly entertaining presentation from a man with over 10 years in the classroom teaching public speaking, and over 25 years on stage making people laugh. It isn’t often that you can laugh this hard and learn so much.

The Perfect Brainstorm 
Is the best part of your Brainstorming session deciding where to order lunch? Have you abandoned Brainstorming because it only results in a long list of bad ideas? Do you find the same people participating and the same people sitting on the sidelines when you brainstorm? It's time to re-examine your process and put the purpose back in your next think tank. Understanding the myths and learning some simple techniques about the creative process will reenergize your next session and start creating inventive and focused ideas once again. Architect your brainstorming sessions so they’re clearer in design and purpose. Discover fresh approaches that can apply to both group situations as well as those occasions when you are alone at your desk and just need a new idea to put your proposal over the top. Learn how to promote involvement from the entire group instead of just the same few people. Recognize when it is the right time to brainstorm. Your speaker uses his 10 years of teaching and 25 years of standup comedy to entertain your group with a powerful combination of great ideas and big laughs. Understanding the creative process has been his way of life so let Tim transform your ordinary meetings into The Perfect Brainstorm.