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Level 2 – Working on Advanced Specialties

Stand Up Comedy - Working on Advanced Specialties

In this 6-week course, you’ll take your skills to the next level by working on your stand-up comedy joke writing and performing skills. Build a routine using the Greg Dean Method of stand-up comedy, work out the bugs, manage and master stage fright. Learn how to read the audience and work with them to get every last laugh you can! Get feedback from fellow comedians, and get personal one-on-one time with Greg or Gayla!

  • Prerequisites: You must complete the Level 1 – How to Build a Stand-Up Comedy Routine class 6-week course including a showcase and 3 rounds of the Level 2  – Writing & Performing a Show

  • Checkout the optional showcase video review

  • Learn in person with Greg Dean at the Santa Monica Playhouse

  • Learn live over Zoom (remote) with Gayla Johnson

Course Details

People of all experience levels complete the Level 1 course prior to moving onto the Level 2 course. Other students have repeated the Level 2 course to continue to refine their sets and performance skills.

Each time you take the Advanced Specialty Class you’ll pick one of these specialties from the list below.

  • Becoming an opener – First up every class to build the best 5 Minutes for the showcase.

  • Crowd work – Practice crowd work in every class to build the best 5 minutes for the showcase.

  • MC training – Intro 3 comedians for the showcase and MC for the students in every class.

  • Roasting – Learn how to write insult jokes on students and then roast them at the end of class.

  • Handling hecklers – Practice 5 minute set with crowd work that leads to getting heckled. Build the best 5 minutes for the showcase.

What you’ll learn

  • Writing Jokes, Tags, and Punching Up Your Routine

  • Editing, Cutting, Rewriting Jokes

  • Adding Funny Stories to your Routines

  • Adding Jokes to Your Funny Stories

  • Defining & Mastering a joke premise

  • Pulling the Audience into Your Comedy “Movie”

  • Being Yourself on Stage

  • Reading & Interacting with the Audience in Front of You

  • Tags & Tag timing

  • What to Do When You Go Blank

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MeetYour Instructors

Greg Dean
The Professor of Stand Up Comedy
Gayla Johnson
Certified Greg Dean Instructor
Greg Dean, the Professor of Stand-Up Comedy, is the author of the international bestseller, Step-by-Step to Stand Up Comedy. It’s now sold in six different languages. Creator of the original Joke Structure technique. Greg Dean has been teaching stand up comedy for over 40 years and is a true innovator in the field of stand-up comedy education, having launched the first stand-up comedy school in the world.
Gayla Johnson is a well-known talented actress and Stand-up Comedian, appearing on Comedy Central, Comics Unleashed, and Showtime Special, “Fierce Funny Women, Headlining at the comedy store Improv, Ice House Comedy Club and Laugh Factory. She toured London and Montreal comedy clubs. She’s also toured many west coast comedy clubs, such as Laugh Out Loud, Rooster T. Feathers, Laughs Unlimited, and Santa Barbara Comedy Club.

Two Ways to Learn

Zoom

Gayla Johnson teaches over Zoom on Thursday afternoon from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm PST. Zoom links and documentation will be sent to you prior to your first class. Please look for this email from us 1 to 3 days before your class starts.

In-Person

Greg Dean teaches at the Santa Monica Playhouse on Tuesday nights from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm PST.

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