Comedy Crash Course

The main question people have about comedy courses is: can you learn comedy or do you have to be born with it?

We absolutely 100% believe you can.

Believing that you’re either born with a great sense of humour or you’re not is symptomatic of a sabotaging “fixed mindset”. If you have never read “Mindset” by Carol Dweck, do yourself a favour and read it. Natural abilities account for such a small percentage of success in most skills, including soft skills like making other people laugh. People who become good at comedy are the ones who work hard at it and believe they can improve.

Most comedians spend a long time “bombing” on stage before honing their skills and being able to make an entire crowd laugh on command. It is extremely rare that someone comes to the stage and is an immediate comedy genius. With all the artists that Rob Spence has met, he’s only encountered such a case once in his life. So if 99% of working professional comedians go from not being good at all to having a career, then it means that comedy can be learned.

Have you ever made a friend laugh? If your answer is yes, then you have the capability to do comedy. If no one has ever laughed at anything you said or did, then perhaps a course won’t help you. We’ve never encountered such a case by the way. 

There is a difference between making your friends laugh and making a room full of strangers laugh throughout everything you say with a very high success rate. This is the skill of comedy, and this is what can be learned. Can you learn it just by just watching a course at home? No. The skill of comedy consists in creating a performance live to an audience and therefore, you will need to get up on stage to become good at it. You will need to try and experiment new stuff. 

What the Comedy Crash Course can do is to seriously cut down the length of time you’ll need to navigate the professional comedy world. How? The Comedy Crash Course will teach you, among other things:

• how to choose topics that will be unique to you and make you stand out
• how to go beyond your initial idea to really go deeper and exploit your premises to the maximum
• how to explore areas of your life you hadn’t thought about for comedy
• how to overcome the negative aftermath of going on stage and not making people laugh
• what type of writing goal you should set yourself
• how to memorize your routines in an efficient way
• how to rehearse for maximum impact of your performance
• how to deal with your nerves before going up
• how to deal with difficult stage situations
• how to make an entry on stage
• how to dress
• how to produce your own independent gigs to create your own stage time

And many other things… there are more than 70 videos in this one-of-a-kind comedy course.

You can learn all the skills you need to have to go from a comedy rookie to a professional comedian. This is not about teaching you some formulas, because simply, formulas do not work in comedy. You want your comedy to be original and not following a template. This course is about teaching you a process to go from zero to full length solo comedy show, taught by a seasoned comedian with 35 years of experience of producing solo shows and playing sold out theatres.