Beginner Stand-Up
Comedy Workshop
In this comedy workshop,
Dean teaches you the fundamental skills, principles, and
techniques used by great stand-up comedians. This puts you in
control. His approach will cut four to six years off your
development time as a stand-up comedian.
● Joke Writing – Five
Ways to Generate Stand Up Material
● Eliminating Self-Criticism – Be Free to Play
● Overcoming Stage Fright – Turn Fear into Funny
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Visualization Memory – Stop Trying to Remember the Words
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Beginner Stand-Up Comedy Workshop – Monday Feb. 22
Tuition: $395
Discount: $50 with $100 Deposit On or Before Free Comedy Class –
Monday Jan. 4
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Sit In a Comedy Class - First Half Free - Monday Feb. 22nd
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Advanced
Stand-up Comedy Workshop
In this comedy workshop, Dean teaches advanced
writing and performing techniques. You will perform a seven
minute show at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. Free recording of
your show. (Prerequisite: Beginner Workshop)
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Routine Construction – Work at Five Laughs per Minute
● Joke Tagging – Add Jokes to Your Jokes
● Microphone Technique – Avoid Amateur Mistakes
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Riffing – Make Jokes Talking with the Audience
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Advanced Stand-Up Comedy Workshop – Tuesday Feb. 16th
or Wed Feb. 17th
Tuition: $395 Sign Up Online Now!
Beginner Workshop Required Before Taking Advanced Workshop
Discount: $100 Off for every student you get to sign up for
Beginner Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
Contact Us: Email
gregdean@stand-upcomedy.com or Call 323-464-4355
Greg Dean – The
Dean of Comedy
Dean moved to
Hollywood California to do stand-up comedy in such venues as the
Comedy Store where he became a paid-regular. At the Comedy
Store, he also helped to develop an evening of improvisation and
sketch comedy. He organized his own improv troop, Good Co.,
which included Andy Garcia. The Comedy Store sent him to La
Jolla, California to work on a similar evening of comedy, where
he met and trained Whoopi Goldberg. He was then offered the
dubious pleasure of being the opening act for the male exotic
dancers at Chippendale's, which he did for the next three and a
half years. In 1986, Dean briefly reunited with his comedy pal,
Michael Davis, to appear as a special guest on
Saturday Night Live
and
Parade of Stars.
Since
Parade of Stars
was a Vaudeville show, Dean fulfilled the lifelong dream of
playing the Palace Theater in New York City.
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Reasons
To Take A Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
By
Stand Up Comedy Workshop's Greg Dean
The most powerful
benefit of taking a stand- up comedy workshop is having a safe
place to deal with your fears. Fear of doing stand-up comedy has
two basic roots: Facing the Unknown and Feeling Unprepared.
We’ll tackle these one at a time.
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Assessment of Stand-Up Comedy Instructors
By Stand Up Comedy
Workshop's Greg Dean
This article discusses the two different
approaches to teaching stand-up comedy:
Opinion-Based Instruction
and
Technique-Based Instruction.
Opinion-Based Instruction is founded on the stand-up comedy
instructor's sense of humor, personal preferences and what they
thinks is funny or acceptable; Technique-Based Instruction is
founded on a curriculum of stand-up comedy fundamental
principles and skills the students learn and apply to their own
style of doing stand-up comedy. These two approaches are
diametrically opposed ways of teaching stand-up comedy students.
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Step By Step
to Stand-Up Comedy
By
Stand Up Comedy Workshop's Greg Dean
Chapter One - The Secrets of Joke Structure
A joke requires two story lines.
The
setup
of a joke creates a
1st story
in our minds that leads us to expect something; then the
punch
surprises us with a
2nd story
that's compatible with, yet different from, what we're
expecting. For example, imagine a male comic, appearing to be completely grief-stricken, telling this joke: (SADLY) "My wife
just ran off with my best friend. Boy, do I miss him." The 1st
story leads us to assume that the comic is unhappy because he
misses his wife. We expect the story to continue along this
thought, so we're surprised when the 2nd story reveals that the
comic is unhappy because he misses his buddy. This shatters our
original assumption.
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