Comedy You Can Dance To with Mitch Mitchem

This is not a sit-and-watch show. From the warm-up to the sing-along finale, the audience is the show. Mitch hosts, the DJ plays only the hits from the '70s to the early 2000s, and the room sings, claps, dances and competes in contests people talk about for years.

Phones down, hands up. Two rules: Be Fun. Be Cool. Phone out and you're busted, which means you're coming up on stage. Scared? Sit in VIP. It's in the back, and it's the only place you're safe.

It's clean, it works for any corporate crowd, and it's built to get a room of strangers connected fast. Open your conference with it and the whole event starts with energy. Close a night with it and they'll still be talking about it at breakfast.

Every show is customized on a prep call: your crowd, your theme, your timing. 60 to 90 minutes.

Mitch is an improv comedian, keynote speaker and author with three decades on stage.

Mitch loves entertaining the room while informing. He has been on stage every week this year, from Informa's Pharma Forum and the Purdue tourism conference to SHRM events for HR and the medical and hospital world, in four countries. Event audiences don't want to sit and listen anymore. They want to be part of what happens on stage. Three programs are leading the way. All three are keynotes, and each runs 60 to 90 minutes.

Decision Heist: Your new boss is AI.
Three audience volunteers step on stage, and their new boss is an AI. It's outrageously confident and sure of every call it makes. It hands them a real business challenge, and it goes hilariously off the rails. Then Mitch changes the rules, and the whole room discovers what human judgment, context and leadership can do that the machine can't. It's live AI and improv, it runs 60 to 90 minutes, and no two shows are ever the same, because the audience is the show. It works as a keynote, a breakout or the evening's entertainment.

The Future Has No Manners: the new rules of being human in the age of AI.
Mitch's keynote for conference openers, kickoffs and leadership events. It's funny, fast and practical. Technology has moved faster than people have. Now people have to catch up. In this keynote Mitch shows audiences how far ahead the machines have gotten, from people kicking robots to riders in self-driving cars who have no idea how to act. Then he runs a live demonstration of his own AI workforce, so the room sees how work is changing at its foundations. Then he turns to what matters most: when knowledge is cheap and machines can do the work, what's left that only humans can do? Audiences leave with the Five New Rules of Work. It runs 60 to 90 minutes and is built around your audience.

Comedy You Can Dance To: the keynote that gets people out of their seats.
This isn't a talk people sit through. Mitch hosts, his DJ runs the music, and within minutes the audience is up, laughing, moving and part of the show. Underneath the fun is a real lesson about the human element: connection is the one thing technology can't do for us. Your people feel that in the room, together, and then take it back to work. The show began in Chicago in 1993, ran there for 20 years, and became a hit at Universal Studios Florida, drawing 20,000 people three nights in a row. It runs 60 to 90 minutes, as an opening keynote, a closing keynote or the evening's main event.

Any keynote can be paired with a follow-on executive session or workshop for leaders, the same or next day.

Fee: $50,000 for US events and $75,000 for international events, plus travel. Budget questions go to Mitch or Diana.

"I am still trying to figure out how they captivated the audience of 20,000 for three nights in a row!" James T., Universal Studios

A full show tech sheet is sent after booking and confirmed on the prep call. The show runs with one host (Mitch) and one DJ, plugged into your house sound system.