Comedy Crash Course

Imagine if you could know certain secret comedy formulas that would be guaranteed to create hilarious punchlines and make hundreds of strangers laugh without fail! Wouldn’t that be amazing if you knew those formulas? 

Well, sorry if this feels like a cold shower, but joke formulas don’t work and most writing done with such formulas just sound mechanic. Formulaic jokes don’t land and successful comedians do not follow magic recipes.

Humour is so diverse, so rich, so full of potential that any attempt at boiling it down to a finite list of formulas, or categories, will take away the originality and possibilities of what your humour could be. If you want to be a successful comedian, you’re going to have to follow your unique personality and sense of humour; and use this as a base to grow on. 

If learning joke formulas isn’t the way to go, what will you learn instead in our comedy course? In our writing comedy module, you will learn techniques to tune into what is already going on in your mind all day. You already have comedy gold within you and you need to extract it. We first teach you to focus on what creates emotional responses in you; it doesn’t have to be laughter. Any emotion is a fertile ground from comedy.

Once you have done that, we then teach you to go beyond your own first impressions and perceptions to really find new perspectives, angles and add more texture and richness to the jokes you wrote.

Finally, you will learn what is the daily practice of writing your act, how to go at a piece of comedy the same way a master painter goes at a new piece, every day adding new details and modifications.

These techniques have enabled Rob Spence to produce one-man-shows for the theatre stage consistently year after year, memorize them, and perform them to feed a professional life of comedy for 35 years and counting. Check out Rob Spence’s Comedy Crash Course to learn these techniques that will shape you as a professional comedian and accelerate your comedy career!