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Beginner's Guide To Making Money In Stand-Up Comedy

Name: Beginner's Guide To Making Money In Stand-Up Comedy
Rating: 4.3 (15 reviews)

Learn how to get paid and turn stand-up comedy into a career!

Created byJared Volle

Last updated 5/2021

English

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What you'll learn

Turn your sense of humor into a paycheck
Create a marketing strategy to get booked at high-level shows
Get paid as an emcee
Produce your own comedy shows for fun or profit

Course content

5 sections • 25 lectures • 3h 22m total length

Introduction to the Business of Comedy: “Follow The Open Door”7:09
Explore the business side of stand up comedy by learning how to get seen, seize opportunities, and build a network, while staying ready for TV writing and live shows.
Leveraging Your Network & Professionalism in Comedy9:14
Learn how professionalism and strong networking open stand-up opportunities. Be easy to work with - on time, sober, respectful, and ready - so bookers trust you and repeat you for shows.
Networking Strategies, Finding New Opportunities, & Self-Marketing Strategy9:16
Explore networking strategies that unlock stand-up opportunities through word-of-mouth, Facebook connections, and marketing tools like press kits, contact info, bios, resumes, and headshots.
Moving Up The Ladder: The “Big-Break Mentality”3:46
Move up the ladder with a big-break mentality by delaying paid gigs until you have solid A or B material, then deliver quality over quantity.
What Makes a Great Emcee?9:23
Discover how a great emcee facilitates a stand-up show by fairly managing timing for comedians, audience, and venue, while being likable, trustworthy, and setting high expectations.
Emcee Strategies: Opening, Introducing Comics, Managing the Audience, & Closing8:32
master the emcee role by opening with audience connection, delivering seamless segues between acts, maintaining momentum during uneven sets, and closing with strong intros and venue promotions.

Step-By-Step Guide to Producing Your Own Show8:10
Learn how to produce your own stand-up show, from booking venues and negotiating financial deals to promoting open mics, networking with comedians, and building a thriving lineup.
Strategies for Successfully Producing & Maintaining a Show7:18
Discover proven strategies for producing and maintaining a stand-up show, from bringer shows and marketing to rotation management, audience growth, and quality control for headliners and features.

Psychology of Laughter: How Science Can Improve Your Laughs – Part 19:46
Explore the three theories of laughter—incongruence theory, stress relief theory, and superiority theory—and learn to analyze and adjust your jokes to maximize these theories, improving setup and punchline alignment.
Psychology of Laughter: How Science Can Improve Your Laughs – Part 29:05
Explore the psychology of laughter through stress relief theory, nervous laughter, and rapid tension release, then learn to use comebacks and underdog moments to engage audiences.
Psychology of Laughter: How Science Can Improve Your Laughs – Part 36:00
Explore how pauses create micro tension and anticipation, and how the superiority theory and stress relief theory shape crowd response, heckler dynamics, and laughter in stand-up.
Maximizing Laughter: Optimizing Writing & Performance Variables – Part 17:36
Examine the parable of comedy economy and a parabola to find the optimal level for each variable—exaggeration, truth, voice inflection, profanity, clothing, timing, speed, persona, and energy—to maximize laughter.
Maximizing Laughter: Optimizing Writing & Performance Variables – Part 27:04
Learn how to maximize laughter by balancing body language, delivery speed, and profanity, while dressing appropriately and staying authentic to your persona.
Maximizing Laughter: Optimizing Writing & Performance Variables – Part 36:53
Learn how to optimize writing and performance by balancing authenticity and persona, adjusting energy levels, and testing variables to maximize audience laughter.
Point-of-View Humor: The Secrets To Hilarious Characters on Stage – Part 17:42
Explore point-of-view humor that uses two voices or a direct audience address, revealing flawed perspectives and indirect punchlines that let the audience laugh through identification and conflict.
Point-of-View Humor: The Secrets To Hilarious Characters on Stage – Part 27:58
Explore point-of-view humor by defining strong characters and their wants, occupying distinct perspectives, and crafting setups that the audience identifies with to boost on-stage laughs.
Turn Analogies Into Applause Breaks: A System For Hilarious Analogies – Part 19:40
Turn parallel writing and erasable path brainstorming into creative analogies, expand topics through logical expansion, and craft unique jokes that trigger audience applause.
Turn Analogies Into Applause Breaks: A System For Hilarious Analogies – Part 29:06
Learn to turn ideas into hilarious analogies using parallel writing, abstracting the core concept, and isolating key variables, then craft engaging storytelling through a traceable, far-away analogy.
Writer’s Block – Part 17:45
Overcome writer's block for stand-up comedians by balancing vertical and horizontal writing; shift to generating five minutes of material today and having fun, rather than judging ideas.
Writer’s Block – Part 25:30
Overcome writer's block by reclaiming your point of view through favorite material, and use vertical writing to balance left-brain details with right-brain whole-picture thinking before full writing.

Enhancing Your Creativity – Part 19:29
Explore creativity in stand-up, balancing lateral thinking techniques with natural creativity, and learn how to apply left-brain and right-brain approaches to unleash a comedian's full potential.
Enhancing Your Creativity – Part 29:45
Enhance stand-up creativity by blending left and right brain thinking and using reversal of assumptions, cherry picking, and random stimulation to spark fresh stand-up material.
Enhancing Your Creativity – Part 39:23
Enhance your stand-up creativity through holistic, intuitive idea generation with a board of your role models, and explore incubation driven by your subconscious to craft authentic, high-quality material.

Requirements

Students should have taken Part 1 & Part 2 of the Stand-Up Comedy Mastery System
Student should have a basic understanding of comedy writing and performance concepts

Description

SECTION 1: Finding Paid Gigs

This section will teach you exact steps for making money with your comedy. Learn how the business of comedy works, how to approach bookers for booked shows, comedy clubs, corporate shows, and many others.

SECTION 2: Producing Your Own Shows

Want to own your own comedy show and get paid (even if you're performing somewhere else that night)? Learn exact steps for building your own successful comedy show. You'll learn how to secure a venue, find talent, and effectively market your show to draw big crowds.

SECTION 3: Bonus - Maximizing Laughter and Becoming Memorable

In the bonus section you'll learn how to take your career to the next level. You'll learn exactly why audiences laugh and how to apply it on stage to get massive laughs. You'll discover how to optimize your performance for maximizing laughs.

Next, you'll learn the secret to amazing storytelling and character development on stage. Learn how to apply POV (Point-of-View) Humor to create hilarious, believable characters in your performances.

Next, you'll learn a step-by-step method on how to create hilarious analogies.

Last, you'll discover creative thinking strategies that will help you write material that is both more effective and more memorable.

*****ABOUT JARED VOLLE*****

Jared is a professional comedian and creativity trainer. He was a finalist in the Great American Comedy Festival and has been an opener for top-comedians like Kyle Cease (#1 Comedy Central Special of 2008, 10 Things I Hate About You, Not Another Teen Movie) and Louis Anderson (#92 on the "100 Greatest Comedians of All-Time" List by Comedy Central). He received a master's in Creativity & Innovation in 2014, and has since developed several programs designed to increase comedians' creativity.

*****TESTIMONIALS*****

“This is one of those courses that covers the basics and goes beyond. It gives you the box and then tells you what is outside of it. I am not sure if it is ahead of its time, but it is DEFINITELY TIME FOR IT!"

~Dave Johnson- Award-winning Comedy/Magician, clients include various conventions and Fortune 500 companies.

*****

"This course offered much insight to the creative mind of the comedian. This information is not only brilliant but also intuitive. They've found a way to put the creative process in measurable terms. This course is mandatory for all people wanting to have a career as a stand-up artist."

~Nick Olivas- Lewis and Floorwax Show, 103,5 Fox FM

******

“You're my new hero. This course is a much-needed resource for the thousands of comedians (including me!) who need no-nonsense, practical advice for generating ideas, fine-tuning material, overcoming challenges, developing an original style, and mapping out a career."

~Paula Johnson- Co-Producer, The Joke Gym, Los Angeles

******

Faster & Funnier is a must for anyone serious about making a career in comedy. It has valuable insights to creating and performing original material. I found the course easy to understand and implement the recommended strategies. Thanks for putting this together, it has helped me become a better comedian.

~Dickey Bill Wagner- Producer, Host, and Headliner

*****

This course has brought a new dimension to my understanding of comedy. Jared breaks down what the pros are doing and how you can achieve amazing results on stage. I've read many stand-up comedy books. This is the only book that has given me a deeper understanding of why comedy works and how to use that knowledge to further my career.

~Comedian Ellery Allexis- Actor, Comedian, Producer, and Host

Who this course is for:

Comedians that have already taken Part 1 & Part 2 of the Stand-Up Comedy Mastery System
Intermediate or advanced comedians that have already written and performed comedy

Beginner's Guide To Making Money In Stand-Up Comedy

What you'll learn

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Course content

Finding Paid Work As a Comedian6 lectures • 47min

Producing Your Own Comedy Shows2 lectures • 15min

Beyond Stand-Up Comedy: Bonus Strategies12 lectures • 1hr 34min

Beyond Stand-Up Comedy: Creativity Strategies3 lectures • 29min

Conclusion2 lectures • 17min

Requirements

Description

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