Start Here To Learn About Finding Wit's End

An overview of what to expect and links to my best work so you can start chuckling immediately

Enjoy Laughter? You’re In The Right Place

Satire, personal essays, and other assorted humor delivered by semi-pro court jester Rick McClelland.

Why Read

Statistic: 95% of emails absolutely suck. That’s real, they’ve done studies, you can look it up. I bet your inbox is full of garbage RIGHT NOW. You don’t need another calendar invite from your boss or sales email from Amazon. You need fun. Hell, I think you deserve it.

Forget about “inbox zero” and instead light up with anticipation when you see an incoming email from ME, your best buddy Rick (we are buddies right? Please. We have to be. My therapist says I really need this.)

At Finding Wit’s End, we live in the other 5%. The awesome 5%. The 5% you want to keep around. Maybe even marry someday.

This newsletter is my quest to locate the limits of comedy and bring all my misadventures finding it to you. If it were a racehorse, people would say, “he loves the slop” and “his mother was a mudder” - which are both extremely flattering things to say about them, btw.

What You Get

Finding Wit’s End is one email every other week, delivered on Wednesdays. Perfect for the mid-week blues. If you’re a math person, that adds up to two per month.

They’ll typically be a short comedic article, personal essay, original sketch/video content, or a list of links to other bits of hilarity from across the vast reaches of the Internet. Imagine me like a comedic caveman, creating and hunting the very best content to roast over an open flame with you.

Want To Laugh NOW? Start Here

🍪 Coronation of a New King: Oatmeal Raisin - Bow down before him

🇺🇸 How I Saved America - An adventure through the interwebs to find Black Friday deals

🎂 33 Lessons For My 33rd Birthday - The word "Lessons" is doing a lot of work there BUT there's definitely 33 numbered items

More About Rick

• I perform improv comedy and dabble in other forms and also work as a storyteller, videographer, and editor.

• I still have my tonsils - yes, I’m one of those “tonsil people” you hear about

• I’ve been absolutely crushing an active daily tooth brushing streak for 34 years and counting

• I can sing every word to Eminem’s ‘Til I Collapse’ on command no matter what state my brain is in at the time

• One time I won an Emmy and learned that the only place I can talk about it is on About pages. I even wrote about how difficult it is to naturally work into conversations at parties without sounding pretentious. So now I just mention it on pages like this where I can’t see people roll their eyes at me. I still feel you doing it though. Nobody made you read this far, y’know. I put this at the very bottom for a reason. This is as much on you as it is me.