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Business Communications Stand-Up Comedy

Ultimate Beginner's Class to Learn Stand Up Comedy

Quick and easy online class about learning how to make people laugh!
Rating: 3.9 out of 53.9 (414 ratings)
4,318 students
Created by Philippe Schafer
Last updated 12/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Perform in front of a live audience!
  • Make an audience full of strangers laugh!
  • Learn how to effectively write funny jokes
  • Learn how to hold an audience's interest even under the most dismal circumstances

Requirements

  • A sense of humor!
  • An amazing work ethic!
  • An insatiable curiosity!

Description

This course will teach you some of the many ways comedians make people laugh with their thoughts and stories.

In turn, you will learn how to make your own thoughts and stories hilarious!

This course is a beginner's guide to learning stand up comedy and will explain and instruct you how to write and deliver jokes.  The advice and tips in this course can be also be applied to many everyday situations and helpful to many different people:

1. Learn amazing public speaking skills (stand up comedy is the easiest way to get speaking time in front of people).  I will tell you how to get stage time and how different shows are structured.

2.  Learn how to make your stories funnier in everyday conversation.  This course will go into detail about what you should write about and the different writing devices used to make your ideas funny.

3.  Spice up your current public speaking skills with joke writing and comedy writing devices.  This course will explain all the components needed to make an audience laugh.

4.  Conquer a fear of public speaking.

5.  Learn the beginning process involved in stand up comedy and the what it takes to perform stand up on a regular basis.  Most people are huge fans of stand up comedy but they have no clue what the process is like.

6.  You will also learn timing and delivery techniques that will allow you to speak with conviction and maximize the amount audience members pay attention to you!

7.  Also, there are some specific ways that you should network and market your abilities in the comedy world.  This course will explain some of the most effective methods.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to improve his or her public speaking!
  • Curious individuals who want to learn a new skill!
  • A funny person who wants to be a comedian!

Featured review

Chris Calderon
Chris Calderon
7 courses
1 review
Rating: 5.0 out of 57 months ago
Great so far, going into detail about joke writing. This a great course for reference and to keep me on track! Lot's of value here! Lot's of value! Well done so far! Great step-by-step! Also, great for coming back to in the future.

Course content

6 sections • 37 lectures • 2h 8m total length

  • Stand Up Comedy Terminology
    1 page
  • Preview03:26
  • Getting Stage Time
    1 page
  • Assignment: Find Your First Show
    00:21
  • Preview3 pages
  • Stand Up Comedy Goals
    03:28
  • Assignment: Write Down Your Goals
    00:09

  • Preview00:32
  • What Should You Write About?
    04:18
  • Styles Of Comedy
    06:13
  • Assignment: Write For An Hour
    00:12
  • Joke Structure
    06:07
  • Assignment: Transcribe Jokes
    00:16
  • Comedy Writing Devices
    08:13
  • Assignment: Edit Your Material
    00:13
  • Callbacks and Transitions
    02:09
  • Joke and Set Editing
    02:27
  • A Few Words On Clean vs. Dirty Material
    03:11

  • Preview06:44
  • Assignment: Perform At Different Open Mics
    00:10
  • Showcases and Comedy Clubs
    04:50
  • Assignment: Watch Headliners Live
    00:22
  • Open Mic and Show Etiquette
    02:41

  • Public Speaking Basics
    06:35
  • Advanced Public Speaking: Comedic Timing And Delivery
    08:46
  • Assignment: Copy Delivery
    00:15
  • Joke Evolution
    17:42
  • Set Organization
    03:45
  • Preview05:09
  • Crowd Work
    03:26
  • Assignment: Crowd Work
    00:10
  • Dealing With Hecklers
    02:30
  • Bombing - How To Handle Failure
    04:06

  • Networking With Comedians and Bookers
    04:44
  • Comedy Marketing
    03:29

  • Hosting Comedy Shows
    06:31
  • Progressing Forward and Good Luck
    00:21

Instructor

Philippe Schafer
Stand up comedian. Coach. Teacher.
Philippe Schafer
  • 3.9 Instructor Rating
  • 414 Reviews
  • 4,316 Students
  • 1 Course

Philippe Schafer was born and raised around Washington D.C.  Formerly an operations engineer, he has been performing stand up comedy for over 8 years and he has been on stage over 1,500 times.  He uses the stage to share insightful and intimate stories of his personal life and to showcase his incredibly remarkable, super cool dance moves.  Audiences are always envious of his dancing skills.  He can see it on their faces.  They just never admit it. 

He has performed all up and down the east coast of the United States and has opened for some of the funniest comedians working today like Tom Segura, Jerrod Carmichael, and many others that have been seen on the Late Show with David Letterman, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Chelsea Lately, and Comedy Central.

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